By NADA BAKRI
Published: November 25, 2011
Syria ignored an Arab league deadline to accept observers to oversee a peace deal to end the bloodshed that has been lasting more than eight months.
Arab League official said:
if the government of President Bashar al-Assad failed to agree by Friday to sign a protocol detailing the mission of the observers, Arab finance ministers would meet Saturday in Cairo to discuss imposing sanctions that could include halting flights to Syria, curbing trade and stopping transactions with the country’s central bank. (New York Times)The new sanctions would deal a severe blow to an economy that is already suffering under the European Union's and the United States's.
Turkey said that its foreign minister would hold talks with foreign ministers from Arab nations in Cairo to discuss Syria's failure to admit several hundred military and civilian observers.
The United Nations estimated that at least 3,500 people have been killed since mid-March in the government's crackdown.
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