Moscow, (ST)_ Russia’s permanent representative to UN Vitaly Churkin stressed that handing over Syria’s seat to the Arab League to Doha coalition will not help a political solution to the crisis in Syria noting “this means the Arab League stopped searching for a political settlement to the crisis.”
In a statement quoted by Russia Today online, Churkin added that “since the beginning the Arab league dealt with the Syrian issue under the influence of certain forces and extremist states that have a hidden agenda,” adding that giving Syria ‘s seat to Doha coalition is inconsistent with laws and that Syria ‘s membership was not dropped from the AL, but frozen.
The Russian official said that “Freezing Syria ‘s membership to the AL since the beginning of the crisis indicated that the AL is not inclined to a negotiable solution ” pointing to other steps taken by the AL concerning the crisis in Syria that raised Moscow’s confusion when in 2011 it sent send an observer mission to Syria then terminated the work of that mission when it began sending objective information about the events there.
T. Fateh