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Arab League Syria Mission Chief Resigns
[An Nahar] The head of a controversial 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... observer mission to Syria has resigned, an Arab League official told Agence La Belle France Presse on Sunday. The resignation of General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi was due to be officially announced at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo later in the day, the official said, without saying why the Sudanese former military intelligence officer had quit. Arab countries were meeting in Cairo in a renewed push to end Syria's bloody 11-month crackdown on dissent, as fighting escalated. The resignation comes as the ministers discuss the possibility of sending a joint U.N.-Arab mission to Syria, the official said. He added that Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi also met with former Jordanian PM Abdel Ilah Khatib, who has been proposed as the next Arab envoy to Syria, the official said. Posted by: Fred 2012-02-13 |
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