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US accused of involvement in Syria violence:
Arab League
Tuesday November 08, 2011 06:54:25 AM,
IANS
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Cairo:
The Arab League announced Monday that it had received a message
from Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, which accused the
United States of involvement in the violence in Syria since
mid-March.
According to a statement issued by the League Secretary General
Nabil al-Arabi, the message was addressed to the mediating Arab
ministerial committee dealing with the situation in Syria,
reported Xinhua, citing Egyptian official news agency MENA.
The message contained a Syrian response to a statement by the US
State Department spokesman on Nov 4 urging Syrian people not to
surrender their weapons to Syrian authorities.
The Syrian foreign minister said this meant the United States was
practically involved in the violence in Syria to delay Arab
League's work to find a solution to the Syrian crisis.
Arabi received the message from Muallem earlier Monday, which
regards measures taken by Syrian government to bring the crisis to
a close, and AL has distributed the message to all Arab countries
immediately upon its receipt, said AL deputy chief Ahmed Bin Helli.
The message also mentioned measures adopted so far by Syrian
government within the framework of implementing the Arab
initiative for the settlement of the Syrian crisis, he added.
An emergency Arab League ministerial meeting to be held this
Saturday will focus on "the continuing violence and the
government's failure to stick to its obligations under the Arab
Action Plan to solve the crisis in Syria".
The nearly seven months of crisis in Syria has brought hardship to
the life of Syrians as revenues from tourism, worker remittance
and foreign investment plunged sharply since the beginning of the
unrest.
Syrian government has faced mounting international pressure,
including economic sanctions imposed by the US and the European
Union, for its response to protesters.
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