DAMASCUS - Syria has agreed to extend a widely criticised Arab League observer mission for a second month, just hours after launching an angry tirade against the bloc’s efforts to mediate in the crisis.
League officials had warned that the monitors, already depleted by the withdrawal of the six oil-rich Gulf states from the mission, would be confined to base from Wednesday if Syria’s agreement was not forthcoming.
‘Foreign Minister Walid Muallem sent a letter tonight to the secretary general of the Arab League (Nabil Al Arabi) informing him of the Syrian government’s agreement to extend the observer mission for one month, from January 24 until February 23, 2012,’ said a statement carried by the official SANA news agency on Tuesday.
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