Arab League turns to UN for support on Syria

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2. League urges Yemen scenario in Syria

CAIRO – Arab league foreign ministers voting to extend their widely criticized Syria observer mission agreed Sunday on a new political road map that calls on President Bashar Assad to delegate power to his deputy and set up a unity government as a prelude to early parliamentary and presidential elections. The Arab League decided to extend the mission, a move that was rejected by opposition groups and Saudi Arabia, which said it was withdrawing its observers after the mission failed to end 10 months of bloodshed. Riyadh called on the international community to exert “all possible pressure” on Damascus.


Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani told a news conference after the meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo that the Arab League would take the power handover initiative to the U.N. Security Council and ask for its endorsement.

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