Arab League to reassess Syria mission
The Arab League is to reassess the work of its heavily criticised
observer mission in Syria at a meeting later this month, the
organisation's chief Nabil al-Arabi said on Saturday.
“There is an overall reassessment of the work of the observer mission
which we will discuss at the next ministerial meeting to be held in
Cairo on Saturday, January 21,” Arabi told AFP during a visit to Oman.
“There has been partial progress until now but there is daily
bloodshed in Syria that the League aims to end,” he added.
Arabi said he met with the Omani minister responsible for foreign
affairs, Yussef bin Alawi, on efforts to achieve a political settlement
in Syria and protect its citizens.
The Arab League mission has been criticized for failing to end
violence in Syria where the United Nations says the regime's crackdown
on protests has cost more than 5,000 lives since March. |