Syria rejects Arab League resolution

MOSCOW. February 13. KAZINFORM Syria on Sunday rejected an Arab League resolution calling for a joint UN-Arab peacekeeping force in the country and tightened economic sanctions on Damascus, Al Arabiya television reported.

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In a brief headline, the channel reported that Syria rejected the Arab decisions "completely". It did not give further details.

Earlier in the day, Arab ministers met in Cairo and adopted a resolution urging the UN to send a new mission to conflict-torn Syria.

The Arab League resolution came a week after Russia and China blocked UN Security Council resolution on Syria .

The Arab League has been at the forefront of regional efforts to end violence in Syria. The group put forward a plan that Assad agreed to in December, and then sent monitors to Syria .

The League withdrew its monitoring mission from Syria in January because the regime failed to the bloodshed.

RIA Novosti