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Arab League: ‘Atrocities in Syria threaten global stability’

December 21, 2016 at 3:10 pm

The Arab League in session at the Arab League office in Cairo, Egypt [Ahmed Gamil/Anadolu]

The tragic situation in Syria poses a threat to Arab and global stability, Arab foreign ministers warned.

Foreign ministers of the Arab League countries expressed their concern during an emergency meeting on Syria in Cairo yesterday. They stressed that the Syrian regime has to come under pressure and respond to the will of the international community represented by the UN resolutions.

During the emergency session called for by Kuwait, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said that the Syrian regime bears responsibility for the events in Syria.

“It is the Syrian regime that refused to enter into any serious negotiations and proceeded with the killing of its own people. It helped terrorist organisations and sectarian militias, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, enter Syria,” Al-Jubeir said.

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul El-Gheit supported Al-Jubeir’s statement, adding that the Syrian regime and its allies are responsible for the brutal military operations and the serious violations of the international humanitarian law in the city of Aleppo, where it indiscriminately killed civilians in full view of the entire world.

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah warned that the situation in Syria and the tragic humanitarian situation in Aleppo will have negative repercussions on the region and will affect international peace and security.

Speaking about the fall of Aleppo Al-Sabah said: “If one thinks that Aleppo will represent the end of the pursuit of military victory, he should reconsider it. There will be no solution in Syria but a peaceful one, through negotiations based on international resolutions.”

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry called for an immediate ceasefire in Syria and for the restoration of Syria, “which was a cornerstone of the joint Arab action.”

Egypt’s foreign minister added that his country, an Arab member of the UN Security Council, supported all draft resolutions on the humanitarian situation in Aleppo, adding that “the Security Council failed to stop the tragedy because of political polarisation.”