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Post by sevenofnine on May 8, 2023 11:16:10 GMT -5
Well well The Arab League welcomed back Syria's government, ending a more than decade-long suspension and securing President Bashar al-Assad's return to the Arab fold after years of isolation. In November 2011, the body suspended Damascus over its crackdown on peaceful protests which began earlier that year and which spiralled into a conflict that has killed more than 500,000 people, displaced millions. While the front lines have mostly quietened, large parts of the country's north remain outside government control, and no political solution has yet been reached to the 12-year-old conflict. "Government delegations from the Syrian Arab Republic will resume their participation in Arab League meetings", said a unanimous decision by the group's foreign ministers. Assad has been politically isolated since the war began, but recent weeks have seen a flurry of diplomatic activity ahead of an Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia on May 19. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, head of the 22-member Arab League, said t newsoftheworld.us/arab-league-re-admits-syria-after-11-year-absence
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