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e put in place an interim government composed of all the factions in Syria — that was put in front of the Security Council a year and a half ago by the Arab League. What do you and your country think is the best outcome in Syria? The best outcome is to stop the killing. How? EFTA00707196 We had a proposal,

ith Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki, former chief of intelligence and brother of the foreign minister. Excerpts: Q. Who made the decision to turn down the U.N. Security Council seat? A. It is always in the end the king [King Abdullah] who makes the decision. But it wasn't a whimsical decision. Nor was it, as some newspape

es, the UN Secretary-General could then report to the Security Council and eventually recommend that it should confirm t

Israel-Syria Separation of Forces Agreement. Arab summit at Rabat declares the PLO the ‘sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people’. Arab League Resolution on Palestine Liberation Organization. PLO Chairman Arafat addresses the UN General Assembly in Geneva. UN General Assembly Resolutions 323

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he Obama administration vetoes the application in the Security Council as expected, Palestinian officials are likely to

aeb Erekat on statehood moves at U.N. Edmund Sanders Article 4. Spiegel ‘What's Wrong with the Palestinians Appealing to the UN?' An interview with Arab League Head Nabil Elaraby Ancle 5. | Wall Street Journal From 9/11 to the Arab Spring Fouad Ajami Article 8. | Guardian Israel should be wary of celebra

s autocratic rule. Tensions in Syria, meanwhile, have already claimed more civilian lives than the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia combined, and yet the Arab League is holding back. Why are you going easy on the Syrian regime? Elaraby: Syria isn't Libya. Libya has always been largely isolated. What happened ther

Egyptians. The days in which one phone call by Israel to Mubarak could shut down any crisis in relations are over. Amr Moussa, the outgoing head of the Arab League and the front- runner in polls to succeed Mubarak as president when Egypt holds elections in November, just made that clear in an interview with The

House chief of staff Bill Daley said dismissively. Hillary decided to push her case on March 12, after the Arab League voted to request action from the U.N. Security Council—an extraordinary decision to break Arab ranks and ask the nations they had for so long denounced as colonialists to help. “Their statement moved her,

lestine. Although this responsibility falls under the Security Council, the constant exercise by the US of its veto powe

is the Holy Land. The majority of the Palestinians see themselves as Arabs; as such, the new state should have a special status in a more meaningful Arab League. The nationalistic feelings of the Jewish population that link them to fellow Jews worldwide must be recognised and upheld. The Jewish population wil

significant air defense systems and no friends; it was relatively easy to construct a coalition of the (semi-)willing in the United Nations, NATO and the Arab League to oppose the man President Ronald Reagan once dubbed the "mad dog of the Middle East"' -- a tin pot and often bizarre dictator who opposed reform an

They realize that the measures taken until now by the United States and Europe have been relatively gentle, therefore wholly ineffective. Add to that the U.N. Security Council's recent failure to condemn Syria and official Arab support for Syrian stability, and you will grasp why the Assad regime saw an opening to reinforce A

cut in electricity supplies. Erdogan turned the screw again this week, accusing Assad personally of "feeding on blood" after he failed to honour the Arab League peace plan. "No regime can survive by killing or jailing," he said. "No one can build a future over the blood of the oppressed." Turkey's motives are

r negotiations, a position fiercely opposed by Israel. More recently, the administration has confirmed that it will veto Palestine's statehood bid in the U.N. Security Council. Obama's relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has seemed very strained at times. In a recently overheard conversation he told French P