(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Britain will have urgent discussions with the Arab League over the group's proposal for a joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Syria, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday.
Hague also welcomed the Arab League's decision at a meeting in Cairo on Sunday to endorse a "Friends of Syria" group, including Britain, which will meet in Tunisia on February 24.
"We will discuss urgently with the Arab League and our international partners the proposals for a joint AL/UN peacekeeping force," Hague said in a statement.
"Such a mission could have an important role to play in saving lives..."
The Arab League said in a statement after the Cairo meeting that it would "ask the UN Security Council to issue a decision on the formation of a joint UN-Arab peacekeeping force to oversee the implementation of a ceasefire."
It said diplomats from the league would also open contacts with the Syrian opposition and give them financial and political support against Bashar al-Assad....
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12 February 2012 - 20:30
News ID: 296267
Britain will have urgent discussions with the Arab League over the group's proposal for a joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Syria, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday.
