Syria rejects Arab League resolution
08:28, 13 February 2012
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.
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