AMMAN — Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi
shared on Friday that Syria should soon be able to return to the Arab League
after a decade of its membership being suspended, according to Reuters.
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Safadi highlighted that Syria’s return would
not be without challenges, especially in resolving the country’s
decade-old conflict.
Syria’s suspension was suspended in 2011 over
Bashar Al-Assad’s violent crackdown on an uprising that evolved into the civil
war.
Safadi highlighted that Syria had enough votes
among the group’s 22 members to regain its seat and that it should happen soon.
Resuming meetingsA spokesperson for the Arab League said on
Thursday that Arab ministers will resume meetings in Cairo on Sunday to discuss
Syria amid the
regional push to normalize ties with Assad.
Several Arab states including Saudi Arabia and
Egypt have
recently re-engaged with Syria through high-level visits and
meetings, although some including Qatar remain opposed to full normalization
without a political solution to Syria's conflict
At a meeting in Amman on May 2, Syria's Foreign
Minister Faisal Mekdad met for the first time with Arab ministers as part of a
Jordanian initiative to get Damascus to negotiate a peace plan.
It lays a road map for ending the conflict
would include
addressing the issues of refugees, missing detainees, drug
smuggling, and Iranian militias in Syria.
Safadi said Syria's readiness to make real
progress in resolving the conflict would help it win the crucial Arab support
to lobby for an eventual end of Western sanctions that are a major impediment
to launching a major reconstruction effort.
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