The Syrian regime is officially outside the upcoming Arab summit in Algeria

The Syrian regime is officially outside the upcoming Arab summit in Algeria

Sep 07 2022

ARK News… The Syrian regime is officially outside the next Arab summit, which is scheduled in the Algerian capital on the first of next November, which means that efforts to re-float this regime have failed after "active" Arab countries refused to participate in the summit.

In a press statement on the sidelines of the opening of the autumn session of the Algerian Parliament, on Sunday, Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtan Lamamira said that "Algeria is ready" to hold the Arab summit scheduled for the first and second of November.

A statement by the Algerian Foreign Ministry stated that the Syrian Foreign Minister, Faysal Miqdad, told Lamamira, in a phone call, that Damascus “prefers not to raise the issue of resuming its seat in the League of Arab States during the Algiers Summit, in order to contribute to unifying the word and the Arab ranks in the face of challenges.” imposed by the current situation at the regional and international levels.

This formula came to constitute a political solution that would remove the embarrassment from Algeria, and absolve it from adhering to the demand for the inclusion of Syria's return to its seat. Excluding the file of Syria's participation would remove one of the most prominent points of contention between Algeria as a host country for the summit and a number of Arab countries that still refuse the Assad regime's participation in the summit.

The Algerian Foreign Ministry had recently tried to find an Arab consensus to invite the Syrian regime to the next summit, in preparation for its return to the Arab League, which had suspended its membership after a decision issued by Arab foreign ministers on November 12, 2011, at the height of the peaceful revolutionary movement in Syria, following the rejection of the Syrian regime. Initiative for a solution put forward by the university.
In this context, the leader of the Syrian opposition, Yahya Al-Ariadi, considered, in an interview with Al-Arabi Al-Jadid, that the failure to invite the Syrian regime to the upcoming Arab summit “means primarily a Russian failure to float this regime, and a European-American seriousness in boycotting it and continuing to impose sanctions on it, and the accountability of Bashar al-Assad's regime is coming."

Al-Ariadi, a former spokesman for the Syrian opposition's negotiating body, pointed out that the Assad regime's failure to attend the Arab summit in the Algerian capital "also means a shaking of the Egyptian position and a firmness of the Qatari and Saudi positions."

He expressed his belief that the Arab League's decision not to invite Assad to the summit "means Iranian relief, despite Tehran's pretending to be interested in the regime's return to the League."

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