Abdullah chairs UAE delegation to Arab League’s meeting

Cairo - Jan 23, 2012 (WAM) - Foreign Minister H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan led the UAE delegation to the Arab League council's meeting held here yesterday to discuss a report on the observer mission in Syria. Qatari Prime Minister and Chairman of the current meeting of Arab Foreign ministers' council Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani told the meeting the worrying situation in Syria invites a review of the whole mission and its findings to determine continuity of its mission or seeking other options including dispatching Arab peace-keeping troops to Syria to halt violence and counter-violence. "The reality says that the bloodshed has not stopped and the killing machine is still running and violence is spread everywhere," he noted. "The Arab League has exerted tremendous efforts to convince Syria to change its policies which brought the country into this crisis," he said. Sheikh Hamad said the Arab initiative aimed at safeguarding unity and stability of Syria.