LAS proposal to bring peacekeepers to Syria rejected
The League also announced the development of ties with the rebels and the termination of all diplomatic contacts with the Syrian authorities.
In response, Yusef Ahmad, the Permanent Representative of Syria to the League, said that the Arab countries, after failing to adopt a UN Security Council resolution on Syria, "are in a state of hysteria."
On the eve of the Arab League held an emergency meeting at the level of foreign ministers in Cairo in private. The agenda was only one issue - the situation in Syria, where armed clashes between opposition forces and the Assad regime occur more than ten months.
26 December 2011. The League of the Syria sent observers after the Syrian-Arab Protocol on the admission of observers to the country was signed. 23 January at a meeting in the Egyptian capital, the League extended for a month the mandate of the observer mission and promised to expand its capabilities. The Syrian government agreed with this decision. Later, the Arab League suspended the mission, as the level of violence in the country increased. According to the UN, the death toll during the clashes exceeded 5 thousand people.
Russia and China 4 February at a meeting of the UN Security Council used their veto power in voting on the draft resolution on Syria, introduced by the delegation of Morocco. This document provided for the application of sanctions against the regime of Assad.
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