Leaders at the Arab League Summit in Iraq on Thursday endorsed the UN envoy Kofi Annan’s plan to end the violence in Syria, with Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warning that arming either side in Syria would lead to a “proxy war.”
Fewer than half the Arab League’s 22 heads of state were present at the summit, the first such meeting in Baghdad in decades. Many of the Sunni-led Arab states are suspicious of Iraq’s Shiite government and its close ties to non-Arab Iran. Militants launched attacks on the day of the summit and explosions occurred just outside the Iranian Embassy.
Iran is also Syria’s closest ally in the region, which may have been one reason Maliki did not come out in favor of military intervention, like Qatar and Saudi Arabia have. Instead he warned against international powers arming either side in the conflict.
The plan brokered by UN envoy Kofi Annan calls for a total cease-fire, withdrawal of Syrian troops pulled from opposition areas and access for humanitarian services. Both the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad as well as elements of the rebel opposition have publicly accepted the plan, although realities on the ground have not changed.
Incidentally, most powers have rhetorically lent support to Annan’s mission to reach a political settlement and end the violence, they continue to craft their own policies that are probably prolonging the conflict. Russia, even after endorsing the Annan talks, continues to arm and support the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
The U.S. has also praised the peace process, but announced recently their plan to send “non-lethal” aid to the Syrian rebels. In fact, Washington had already announced that it had been providing humanitarian aid to opposition fighters and administration officials confirmed last Sunday that the U.S. had already begun to supply some aid, including communications gear, to the rebel Free Syrian Army.
Once again the Arab league gathered and once again they are apart as many times before. That is not because of who they are but that is because what they are, some are ignorant as Saudis and UAE, and some are fake as again Saudis and UAE Kingdoms are, fake in terms of their national interests or in general Arab interests, they are fake because they are not Europeans nor they are Americans but their country and their social political system is totally dependents on either US or EU. It is about Iran they say, but what Iran have done to any Arab country which is the question, where non of these regime will be able to answer correctly or even have an answer, but if you ask any Arabs national, 72% of them, from Jordan to Iraq and to Saudis and UAE and other countries, they will tell you that US and Israel is the number one enemy and because of their historical animosity toward Arab national and other in middle east; therefore, there hasn't been any peace in Middle East for last 50 years. Even now that they have this chance in cooperation where they can once and for all stop their ignorant and irrational thinking and understand that US nor EU will give a damn about any Arab national or others, that only thing that they are after is Iraqi, Iranian, Saudis and other nationals natural resources and their strategical importance in regard to WWIII, the nations in middle east is going to see this animosity to continue for another 50 years, and that is what US and EU is after, not the freedom of Syrian people nor the fake democracy presented by feudalist characters, nor the Libyan or Afghanis or Iraqis or any other national in this world. For good sake, these regimes are capitalism regimes, they work and have people killed and start wars for capital, there is no word of humanity nor respect for humanity nor democracy placed in CAPITALISM, by helping them you have decreased your power as a nation, they divide your country for not what the country is called, but for its natural resources that they need, if they could they would do it to Saudis, UAE and Turkey starting tomorrow, but for now they need you to fight each other, not being united so they can continue with their fake and falsified democracy.