League of Arab States: no agreement on the return of Syria



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The Arab League said in a statement on Monday that its position on Syria's suspension did not change because there was no "Arab consensus".

"There is no Arab consensus on the issue of reconsidering the decision to suspend Syria's membership of the Arab League," Hossam Zaki, general secretary of the League, told a news conference.

Damascus suffered a diplomatic isolation at Arab and international level since the outbreak of the conflict in March 2011, in particular in closing most of the Arab and Western embassies in Syria.

On November 12, 2011, almost eight months after the unrest in Syria, the Arab League decided to suspend Syria's accession to political and economic sanctions on Damascus, demanding that the Syrian army " do not use violence against anti-regime demonstrators ".

Since the beginning of the conflict over 360,000 people have been killed, extensive damage to infrastructure, displacement and displacement of more than half of the population inside and outside of the country.

On the other hand, Zaki stressed "the lack of coordination between Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and the Arab League regarding his recent visit to Damascus".

Last week Bashir made a surprise visit to Damascus where he met his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad for bilateral talks between the two countries and developments in Syria and the region. Bashir is the first Arab president to visit the Syrian capital since the outbreak of the conflict in Syria.

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