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Syria Accuses Arab League of 'Internationalizing' Crisis
2011-11-27
[An Nahar] Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem accused 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...
on Saturday of "internationalizing" the deadly crisis hitting the country since pro-democracy protests began more than eight months ago.

The accusation came in a letter addressed to the vaporous Arab League as ministers from the group gathered in Cairo to draw up sanctions against Syria to punish Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
's regime for defying an ultimatum to allow in observers and pressing a deadly crackdown.

On Thursday, Arab diplomats said the League would ask the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
to contribute observers to an international mission that Syria is refusing to admit to the country.

In a letter released to the state-run SANA news agency, Muallem said the call by the Arab League to U.N. Secretary General Bank Ki-moon was an invitation "for foreign intervention (in Syria) instead of a call to avoid one."

"What we understand by this latest Arab League decision is a tacit green light for the internationalization of the situation in Syria and to meddle in its domestic affairs," Muallem was quoted as saying.

Posted by:Fred

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