No league request to UN
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January 10, 2012, Tuesday
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The Arab League has urged the Syrian government to end its violence against protesters and allow league monitors in the country to work more freely, but stopped short of asking the UN to help.
The arrival last month of the monitors in Syria to judge whether the government was honouring a pledge to end a crackdown on a popular revolt has not ended the violence, in which the United Nations says more than 5,000 people have been killed.
After a progress meeting in Cairo on Sunday, the Arab League group on Syria said the government had only partly implemented a promise to stop the crackdown, free those jailed during the crisis and withdraw its troops from cities.
The league said it would increase the number of monitors from the present 165 and give them more resources.
Arab League officials said the continuation of the mission, due to make a full report on January 19, depended on the Syrian government's commitment to ending violence.
"If the ... report comes out saying the violence has not stopped, the Arab League will have a responsibility to act on that ... We have to be clear and honest with the Syrian people," Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani said.
Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said that while the Syrian opposition had asked for the case to be referred to the UN Security Council, there was no international appetite for military intervention in Syria.
The arrival last month of the monitors in Syria to judge whether the government was honouring a pledge to end a crackdown on a popular revolt has not ended the violence, in which the United Nations says more than 5,000 people have been killed.
After a progress meeting in Cairo on Sunday, the Arab League group on Syria said the government had only partly implemented a promise to stop the crackdown, free those jailed during the crisis and withdraw its troops from cities.
The league said it would increase the number of monitors from the present 165 and give them more resources.
Arab League officials said the continuation of the mission, due to make a full report on January 19, depended on the Syrian government's commitment to ending violence.
"If the ... report comes out saying the violence has not stopped, the Arab League will have a responsibility to act on that ... We have to be clear and honest with the Syrian people," Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani said.
Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said that while the Syrian opposition had asked for the case to be referred to the UN Security Council, there was no international appetite for military intervention in Syria.
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