Arab League Slams Syrian Regime ‘Massacres’

Arab leaders have called for a political solution to the conflict in Syria, although the Syrian opposition had asked for “sophisticated” arms to tip the balance of power.

The regional body, in its final statement issued on Wednesday after a two-day summit in Kuwait, also condemned the mass killings committed by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

“We condemn in the strongest terms the massacres and the mass killing committed by the Syrian regime’s forces against the unarmed people,” said Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry undersecretary Khaled al-Jarallah, reading from the statement.

“We call for a political solution to the Syrian crisis in accordance with the Geneva I declaration,” it read.

The Geneva Declaration was drawn up at an international conference in 2012 as a road map for Syria’s political transition.

The two warring sides met at so-called Geneva II peace talks which UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi broke off on February 15 without setting a date for a resumption of negotiations.

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