Sudan’s stance on Syria chimes with Arab League consensus
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August 28, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan has affirmed the conformity of its
position towards the Syrian events with the Arab League’s consensus,
the country’s foreign minister said on Sunday, quelling earlier
reports of Khartoum’s dissent.
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At top Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, talks to Sheikh Mohammed
bin Rashid, Vice President and Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates,
as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, left, talks to Algerian
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika during a group picturte with Arab
leader in Sirte, Libya, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 (AP PHOTOS)
Foreign ministers of the 22-member Arab League met over the weekend in
Cairo and issued a statement expressing concern over the violent
events in Syria and calling on Damascus to end the “spilling of blood”
and “resort to reason.”
According to UN figures, more than 2200 people have been killed in
Syria as Bashar al-Assad’s government cracked down on protestors
demanding his ouster.
The Arab League decided to dispatch its cheif Nabil al-Arabi to
Damascus with an “initiative” to defuse the burgeoning crisis.
Syria reacted angrily to the statement, condemning it as a “clear
violation of the principles of the Arab League charter and of the
foundations of joint Arab action."
“Sudan has no objection to the Arab position announced by the Arab
League’s ministerial meeting towards the events in Syria and the
decision to send the Arab League’s chief to Damascus” the Sudanese
foreign minister Ali Karti announced on Sunday.
Karti’s announcement follows reports that he walked out of the Arab
League’s meeting in expression of Khartoum’s dissent with the
statement.
However, the Sudanese minister dismissed the reports, saying that he
left the meeting after he informed the Arab League’s Secretary-General
of and at the time when the statement was in the stage of final
drafting.
Similarly in Khartoum, the official spokesman of Sudan’s foreign
ministry denied that his boss withdrew from the meeting over
objections to the statement.
The spokesman, Al-Ubayd Moroah, said that a position similar to that
of the Arab League was conveyed by president Al-Bashir to his
counterpart Al-Assad through a special envoy at the beginning of the
crisis.
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