Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said Wednesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will attend an Arab League summit this Friday in Saudi Arabia for the first time in over a decade.
Earlier this week, Mekdad attended a preparatory meeting for the summit, making him the first Syrian official to attend an Arab League event since Syria was suspended from the bloc in 2011. “This is a new opportunity for us to tell our Arab brothers that we do not look to the past but towards the future,” Mekdad said on Monday.
Syria was suspended following the outbreak of war in Syria, and many of the bloc’s members threw their support behind the failed regime change effort against Assad. But now, the majority of Arab nations have accepted Assad isn’t going anywhere and are normalizing relations with Damascus.
The US is strongly opposed to regional countries upgrading ties with Syria, but that hasn’t slowed the momentum. The effort to bring Syria back into the Arab League was spearheaded by Saudi Arabia, which also reestablished diplomatic relations with Damascus. Saudi King Salman personally invited Assad to attend the Arab League summit.
Hawks in Washington are furious with the developments as they want to keep Syria isolated under sanctions and want to continue the US occupation of eastern Syria. A group of House members introduced legislation to combat normalization that would strengthen sanctions, which already have a devastating impact on Syrian civilians.
It is readily apparent that WE DO NOT WANT PEACE TO BREAK OUT.
… “we”, that’s to say, Israel.
Tail wags dog.
Actually, it now owns both the dog.
If Syria had not raised its own terrorist armies,and not invited Iranian terrorist hordes on to its territory,and not subverted the Lebanese government,then the Syria mess would not now exist.
When you believe that you are in control but are not.
Right, the great octopus wheeling its Satanic powers,when it is not spreading the SYPH.
Right, the great octopus wheeling its Satanic powers,when it is not spreading the SYPH.
The US is backing down.
We just issued a statement that Assad needs to behave in the future and needs to show he will, really firmly.
In otherwords just tell us you will be nice and we will make a big show of begrudgingly accepting you because we do not have much choice in this matter.
In the face of US…!
The US is “strongly opposed”.
So the f*ck what? Good to see the Arab nations flipping off the United Snakes and Israhell.
“You ain’t the f*ckin’ boss of us!”