Sudan News Agency (Khartoum)
21 December 2011
Cairo — The Council of Arab League agreed in its extraordinary meeting at the level of permanent envoys to appoint Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Mustafa Al-Dabi as the head of Arab monitoring mission which will leave to Syria
The Deputy Secretary General of the Arab League, ambassador Ahmad bin Hilly, said in a statement at the end of the meeting that the Arab League will discuss the developments in Syria following the signing of the document of the Arab League observers mission to Syria.
Ambassador Hilly said that the council approved the appointment of Lt. Gen. Al-Dabi as the Head of the Arab monitoring mission to Syria.
Gen. Al-Dabi is a Sudanese military commander and a diplomatic figure who worked before as coordinator between the Sudanese government, the UN and African Union forces in Darfur region.
He noted that Al-Dabi is to due arrive in Cairo shortly to meet with the Secretary General of the Arab League and to heard to the necessary objectives and to know tasks of the mission and then to head to Syria during the coming days.
He pointing that there is advance mission chaired by the Arab League’s assistant Secretary-General, Ambassador Samir Seif el-Yazal, who would leave for Damascus to make arrangements for the observers who will meet representatives of the Syrian revolution and to visit all Syrian areas such as prisons, custodies and hospitals and to submit reports to the Secretary-General of the Arab League on their remarks.
Ambassador Hilly said that the work of the monitoring team comes as ouset for implementing the Arab initiative which is supported by the UN, expressing hope that the Arab solution will be a final one for the Syrian crisis far away from any internationalization to the problem.
The Qatari Ambassador to Cairo and permanent envoy to the Arab League, who chaired the meeting said there is a concern with success of the Arab initiative to maintain the unity of the Syrian lands, because Syria is a member of Arab League.
He said that the mission will begin its tasks according with the protocol that was signed by the Syrian government and which was reached after the 10th meeting of Arab foreign ministers.
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