The meeting between the foreign ministers of the nine most important Arab countries began on Friday night in the Saudi city of Jeddah to discuss the return of Syria to the Arab leaguean organization from which Damascus was banned more than a decade ago for the brutal repression with which it responded to the popular revolts of 2011, reported Saudi official television.
The meeting started late due to a round of separate meetings previously held by the heads of diplomacy of the countries that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (CCG: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Oman), in addition to Iraq, Jordan and Egypt.
Saudi Arabia, the host country of this initiative, shared on Twitter the arrival of each and every one of the participants in the event and their reception at the airport by the Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister, Waleed Elkhereiji.
This series of private meetings to which is added the celebration of iftar, the breaking of the fast during the month of Ramadan, has delayed the meeting in which they debate the readmission of Damascus to the Arab League, made up of 22 countries from the region of Near East and North Africa.
In the next few hours, the nine Arab countries will discuss the future of Syria in the regional environment, although the main obstacle to the readmission of Damascus is Qatar, whose prime minister, Mohamed bin Abderrahman bin Yassim, insisted last night that his country still ” maintains its position” contrary to that country.
This event is promoted by Riyadh, a country that in early March normalized relations with its arch-enemy in the Middle East, Iran, a close ally of the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
On the other hand, the earthquakes of two months ago seem to have given a strong boost to the Arab countries, since they left a host of gestures as significant as those of Egypt, with visits by heads of diplomacy, and Tunisia, where Syria will reopen soon your embassy.
Source: EFE
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