Top Diplomats From 8 Arab Countries Call to Create UN Mission on Syria

Foreign ministers from eight* Arab countries have urged UN Secretary General Guterres to launch a process to create a UN mission to support Syria during the transitional period. *(Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Qatar, Lebanon, the UAE and Saudi Arabia) Following their meeting in Jordan’s Aqaba, the top diplomats stressed that they were making this statement, while “supporting the role of the UN envoy to Syria and requesting the UN Secretary General to provide him with all necessary capabilities and begin work on establishing a UN mission to assist Syria in sponsoring the transitional process and assisting the brotherly Syrian people…