Arab League chief postpones Beirut visit over Syria crisis

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Arab League chief postpones Beirut visit over Syria crisis

October 31, 2011 09:57 AM

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Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi.

BEIRUT: Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi postponed a visit to Beirut scheduled for Monday in order to focus on the league's work to find a solution to the crisis in Syria.

Sources at Prime Minister Najib Mikati‘s office told The Daily Star the postponement was due to Arabi’s preoccupation with the work of an Arab League committee tasked with finding a solution to Syria’s eight-month-old crisis.

The committee Sunday said it had agreed on a “serious proposal” to end the violence in the country, to which Syria said it would respond on Monday.

The sources said Arabi informed Mikati of the delay, but added that no new date was set for the Arab League official’s visit.

During his Beirut visit, Arabi was scheduled to meet Mikati as well as President Michel Sleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri and Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour.

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NPK	October 31, 2011 10:48 AM

Fools stay out of Syria[in Turkey] and make the people who stay in Syria to come to streets. People of Syria are not that much bold as Libya. Libya took guns. But the fools say NATO not to inter-vein. Whose life is lost? Just i read the news that the Death of Gidaffi has raised the hope and again the count of the demonstrators has gone high, which clearly says that the count has slowly reduced. Sure the fools staying in Turkey will be kicked off Syria if the Syrian Free Army doesn't take guns. And now fools you say who will support Free Syrian Army? Even the Army Deflectors can been killed, you loose people and the army men and yourself. Think before it goes waste...call for NATO

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