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Syria on Monday rejected a proposition advanced on Sunday by the Arab League which advises Bashar al-Assad to transfer power to a deputy and establish a unity government that would take care of the country until the presidential and parliamentary elections were called.
Citing an undisclosed governmental source, the Syrian state-run agency said that the decision made by the Arab League foreign ministers was a violation of the sovereignty of the country.
On Sunday, the foreign ministers of the Arab League countries decided to ask Bashar al-Assad to leave. The Qatari prime minister said “We ask the Syrian regime to leave and hand over power.” He added that the Arab League was with the Syrian people, with their will and their aspirations.
The Arab League proposed a plan according to which government and opposition should start a dialogue within two weeks, and form a unity government within two months. According to a leader of the opposition, the plan exposed on Sunday shows that the Arab League considers the regime in Damascus finished, and that it must be replaced.
The decision made by the Arab League comes after it sent a mission in Damascus and in different parts of the restive country to assess how the Syrian government was applying the requirements demanded by the AL.
The mission started in late December and it was composed of 100 observers, which were led by a Sudanese general. The mission was intended to visit different cities in Syria, mainly in the center of the country, such as Homs, Daraa, Hama, Idlib, and to report back to Cairo what the situation was.
The Syrian opposition protested against the fact that the leader of the mission was a general from a country whose president was being accused of genocide. More than half of the mission members were from Sudan. Last week the Arab League supplemented the number of observers by 40 people.
The activists in the field said that the regime took the observers to different streets, where the things were quiet, or even pulled the tanks from the streets to offer the impression that everything was in order.
Even though 3,000 people were said to have been released from prisons as a result of the mission’s activity reports indicate that 400 people were killed while the mission was in the field.
150 Arab organizations demanded on January 18 the Arab League to withdraw the mission from the field, considering it a failure. The same was said by the US State Secretary Hillary Clinton two weeks ago.
The unrest in Syria started 11 months ago, and is said by the UN agencies to have claimed the lives of more than 5,000 people. The regime claims that more than 2,000 of the people who died were members of the security forces.
In an address to the nation two weeks ago, Bashar al-Assad said he had never ordered crackdown on the people. He said that the clashes were due to a conspiracy directed against his country, a conspiracy led by international forces.
The embattled president blamed the same conspiracy for the decisions made by the Arab League. However, he warned that any intrusion in domestic business of his country would result in a political earthquake in the region. He described Syria as a political fault line of the region.

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