To lift the suspension of Syria’s membership is on the agenda of the next meeting of the Arab League leaders.
In an autopsy report, the Arab newspaper reported that Cairo’s efforts to bring Syria back into the Arab League strengthened the possibility of lifting the suspension of Damascus’ membership during the next summit.
According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, a high-ranking informed source in the Arab League Secretariat revealed that the Syrian regime will return to its seat in the Arab League at a summit to be held in Algeria next March.
In an interview with the London-based Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed newspaper, which is close to Qatar, the source said that Algeria’s contacts with Arab countries led to an initial agreement to invite the Syrian government to attend the summit on Damascus’ actions, although the Qatari government still objects. .
According to the source, Syria’s return to the Arab League could be based on the fact that the decision to suspend its membership was “flawed and contrary to the union charter.”
But Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman al-Thani still cites the reasons for Syria’s suspension from the Arab League, saying earlier: “The Qatari government has a clear position on this. “There are still reasons for the suspension of Syria’s membership in the Arab League.”
A decision by the Arab foreign ministers to suspend Syria’s membership in the union, taken at an emergency meeting in Cairo on November 12, 2011, will take effect on the 16th of the same month until the Syrian government commits to implementing the provisions of the Arab Initiative, a legal source said. But this decision was not in accordance with the Charter of the Arab League.
According to this source, the Charter of the Union of Arab States was issued on March 22, 1954, which states in Article 8: “He knows and commits himself not to take any action aimed at changing that system.”
The source added that the second paragraph of Article 18 of the Charter states that the Arab League may expel any country that does not fulfill its obligations under the Charter from the Union, provided that a decision is taken unanimously by the countries, except the country. mentioned. This also did not apply to Syria.
He stressed that even the decision to suspend Damascus’s membership in the Arab League was not made by the consensus of all members, and then-Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi told a joint news conference with Qatari Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani on November 12, 2011 that The decision was approved by only 18 countries, with three opposing: Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, and Iraq abstaining.
On the other hand, Egyptian diplomatic sources told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed that Cairo’s contacts with Damascus followed the meeting of Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri with Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad in New York at the end of September, for the first time in ten years. Took; continues. The Egyptian and Syrian foreign ministers also met in New York to discuss Syria’s return to its seat in the Arab League.
