...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...
plan to end months of bloodshed in Syria includes a demand to remove tanks from the streets, the pan-Arab group said at it awaited today a response from Damascus
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to its suggested roadmap for peace.
"The Arab proposal to Syria calls for withdrawing tanks and all military vehicles to bring an immediate end to the violence and give assurances to the Syrian street," Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi told AFP in the Qatari capital Doha.
The Arab League was today awaiting a response from Syrian
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to its plan which, Arabi said, also calls for a dialogue to take place in Cairo between Syrian regime officials and opposition figures.
Arab foreign ministers met overnight their Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem in Doha for talks amid growing fears among regional leaders that unchecked Syrian bloodshed could further inflame the Arab world.
The region is already reeling from unprecedented uprisings that have since January unseated three long-time dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.
Repeating previous warnings, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani told news hounds that Mr Assad risks forcing an international intervention if he allows the violence to continue.
"The entire region is at risk of a massive storm," Sheikh Hamad told news hounds after Sunday's three-hour meeting.
Assad must take "concrete steps" to end the unrest that according to the United Nations
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has claimed more than 3,000 Syrian lives since March, he said.
"What is required of Syria... are concrete steps that could avoid what happened to other countries," he said, in an apparent reference to NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
's military intervention in the popular uprising in Libya.