Will Syria return to the Arab League? More and more countries in the region are moving in this direction, but reluctance remains. This Friday, Saudi Arabia had convened a meeting of heads of diplomacy from nine Arab countries with the aim of reaching a consensus. In the end, this group of countries did not want to formally reach out to Bashar al-Assad but pleaded to play a role in resolving the Syrian crisis.
For now, Bashar al-Assad still has no invitation card for the next Arab League summit to be held in a month. This Friday in Jeddah, the six Gulf countries, Iraq, Egypt and Jordan did not formally invite the Syrian president, ostracized on the regional scene since 2011, the beginning of the repression of the protest movement targeting him .
The final communiqué of this meeting is content to affirm that this regional group wants “ play a leading role in initiatives to end the crisis in Syria and is committed to multiplying consultations among Arab countries to ensure the success of these efforts “.
For its regional reintegration, Syria can count on the support of a growing number of countries. Among them, Saudi Arabia, which will host the next Arab League summit. But Qatar, he reaffirmed his opposition again last Thursday.
Its Prime Minister called it “ speculations the idea that Syria be reintegrated into the regional organization. For Riyadh, it is therefore necessary to convince its neighbor not to veto this return. Difficult to say, at the end of this meeting, if it succeeded.
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