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Iraq: Syria Arab League Suspension Unacceptable
[An Nahar] Iraq on Sunday slammed the Arab League...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... 's decision to suspend Syria as unacceptable while also calling on Damascus ...The City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... to open dialogue with the opposition. "Suspending Syria's membership in the vaporous Arab League came in an unacceptable way," Iraq government front man Ali al-Dabbagh said on Iraqiya television. Iraq was the only country to abstain from the Saturday vote to suspend Syria's membership in the Arab League over its crackdown on dissent which has left more than 3,500 people dead, according to U.N. figures. Eighteen countries voted in favor of Syria's suspension from the pan-Arab body while Yemen, Leb and Syria voted against the decision. "This decision was not taken against other countries that have bigger crisis than the Syrian crisis," said Dabbagh. Libya is the only other country that has been suspended from the regional bloc since a wave of pro-reform protests swept across the Arab world this year. "The stability and security of Syria is important to Iraq, and the Iraqi government has called its Syrian counterpart to dialogue with the opposition, and to carry out the requested reforms. "We want complete freedom for (Syrians), but not in this forced way that moves the Syrian issue ... to internationalization," he said. "This issue is very dangerous." Posted by: Fred 2011-11-14 |
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