The Arab League on Sunday welcomed again the Syrian regime, which had been shunned since 2011 over Bashar al-Assad‘s crackdown on pro-democracy protests that began the civil struggle.
“Government delegations from the Syrian Arab Republic will resume their participation in Arab League meetings,” mentioned a unanimous resolution by the group’s overseas ministers.
In November 2011, the 22-member physique suspended Damascus over its bloody crackdown on peaceable protests which started earlier that 12 months and which spiralled right into a civil battle that has killed greater than 500,000 individuals, displaced thousands and thousands and battered the nation’s infrastructure and trade.
While the entrance strains have principally quietened, giant elements of the nation’s north stay exterior authorities management, and no political resolution has but been reached to the 12-year-old battle.
Assad has been politically remoted for the reason that Syrian battle started, however current weeks have seen a flurry of diplomatic exercise forward of an Arab League summit within the Saudi metropolis of Jeddah on May 19.
The final Arab League summit Assad attended was in 2010.
The Syrian regime, nevertheless, started to trade official visits and contacts with a number of Arab nations in current months amid studies a few doable resumption of Syria‘s membership within the pan-Arab group.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
