How was Syria’s return to the Arab League made possible?
The “Beijing agreement” is the end of the tense relations between the axis of resistance and the Sunni conservative bloc in the West Asian region. After five rounds of security talks in Baghdad, the meeting of security-political officials of Iran and Saudi Arabia in Beijing, the capital of China, the two regional powers, in addition to announcing the normalization of bilateral relations and the resumption of diplomatic relations, are now seeking to resolve important regional cases. On Sunday, May 7, 2023, the foreign ministers of the Arab League, during an extraordinary meeting in Cairo, agreed on the return of Syrian delegations to this union. Syria’s seat in the Arab League is going to return to the legitimate government of Bashar al-Assad, as this Arab country has been the biggest absentee from Arab League meetings for nearly 12 years. Based on this, in the continuation of this note, we will try to take a look at the process of normalizing Syria’s relations with conservative Sunni governments and the return of this country to the Arab League.
After the 7.8 Richter earthquake occurred in Turkey-Syria and following the serial trips of Arab officials to Damascus, the “first step” was the normalization of relations between Damascus and the Arab countries and the return of this country to the Arab League. After this incident, the Biden government was forced to suspend the economic-commercial sanctions against Damascus for 180 days by issuing the general license “Syria 23”. At the same time, the presidents of Arab countries and the foreign ministers of the UAE, Jordan and Egypt went to Damascus to meet with the Syrian authorities. The transformation of Damascus into the arena of “Arab diplomacy” made the legal government of Assad practically out of political-diplomatic isolation and the public opinion of the region prepared for the return of this country to the Arab Union.
