Cairo – The Council of the Arab League, held in Cairo on Thursday in a special session at the level of foreign ministers, entrusted Morocco, in its capacity as a non-permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, with communicating its decisions to the International Organization, calling for an end to killings and the protection of civilians in Syria.
The Council of the League has “entrusted the non-permanent Arab member of the Security Council -Morocco- with asking the Security Council for an immediate cessation of acts of killing and the protection of civilians in Syria, at its meeting, scheduled for May 5,” said a statement issued following this meeting. The Ministers called on Damascus to be committed to implementing the six-point plan of the UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, including that concerning the identity of the international observers. They, likewise, called Damascus to be committed to, according to a time frame, the relevant resolutions of the Arab League. The Council also asked the Syrian authorities to “recognize explicitly” that Kofi Annan is both the Special Envoy of the Arab League and the U.N. and that his mission, based on resolutions of the two organizations, aims to realize the expectations of the Syrian people to change. The Council likewise called on Syrian officials to ensure the protection of civilians and freedom of peaceful protest, to begin the political process in accordance with the plan of the Arab League and to provide full support to the mission of the international envoy.
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