Key day for Bashar al-Assad’s Syria. nine arab countries They met in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to discuss the Mediterranean country’s return to the West. Arab League He was expelled in 2011 for reacting violently to the protests. Saudi Arabia took a radical turn in its foreign policy, summoning ministers and senior officials from the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and United Arab Emirates with the United Arabs Egypt, Iraq and Jordan To this town on the Red Sea coast. This change comes a month after diplomatic relations with Iran were resumed, thanks to Chinese mediation.
“Main target Discussing the situation in Syria; “There are many developments regarding the situation there and the views of Arab countries on their return to the Arab League,” a spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Majed Al-Ansari. Later, a change in Qatar’s maladaptive stance on Syria was “essentially a reconciliation in arabic and even change in place Fulfill the aspirations of the Syrian people”, hours before the meeting in Jeddah, Qatar closed the door on any possibility of immediate return.
During a television appearance, the country’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Zani, He insisted on his opposition to normalization with the Assad regime. “There were reasons for the expulsion of Syria from the Arab League and boycott the Syrian regime It was then and these reasons still exist,” he said in his first interview since being appointed prime minister last month. Syrian people continue to be displacedThere are innocents in prisons, there are many things,” he reminded. Sheikh explained that “they do not want to impose a solution on the Syrian people, that the people should reach them” and that “a political solution to the Syrian crisis should be found”.
Assad’s godfather
Many Arab countries accelerated the process. Repairing relations with Damascus after boycotting the dictator for more than a decade for brutally suppressing protests. Saudi Arabia plans to invite Assad to the Arab League summit planned to be held in Riyadh May 19thtold by some sources Reuters. Attendance at the meeting, although likely to be a resident on the plane symbolicmarking most important breakthrough In its rehabilitation in the Arab world since its suspension in 2011.
Saudi Arabia seems to want to be Assad’s godfather. Iran’s allyafter the country’s top diplomat visited the kingdom for the first time this week since they broke diplomatic relations in 2012. Syria and Tunisia they announced it they would reopen their embassiesTen years after the African country cut ties to protest the deadly crackdown on anti-Assad protests.