May 5. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has said Syria could muster enough votes to rejoin the Arab League, from which it was expelled in 2011.
Arab League members, who have met several times in recent months to discuss normalizing international relations with Syria, will vote this Sunday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on whether “reversing Syria’s membership freeze” has advanced the Jordanian.
Safadi has expressed in an interview with that it is also “very likely” that, if the vote is favourable, Syrian President Bashar al Assad will preside over the League meeting on May 19.
“The whole movement in the Arab world to try to play a leading role in the efforts to achieve a political end to the Syrian crisis took place in a context, a reality in which there was no effective effort to resolve the crisis,” he said. Safadi, who believes that this context has changed.
The return of Syria would be “symbolic”, but according to the minister it would serve to put an end to the crisis that the country has been experiencing for more than a decade. In addition, he has detailed that all the countries of the Arab League are in favor of this re-entry, although there are discrepancies on the best way to do it.
It is a new step in the normalization of Syria’s relations with the Arab world, after the foreign ministers of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt met this week with their Syrian counterpart in Amman.
