Buses are seen during an evacuation operation of rebel fighters and their families from rebel-held neighbourhoods in Aleppo yesterday.
At the request of Qatar, the Arab League convened an emergency meeting of its permanent representatives yesterday at Cairo, to discuss the humanitarian crisis in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
The Arab League Council at the level of the Permanent Delegates yesterday reiterated support for efforts by Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia to hold an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly to stop the atrocities carried out by the Syrian regime and its allies against the Syrian people. The delegates, at end of their emergency meeting, issued a statement, urging the international community to press the Syrian regime to open safe humanitarian corridors to exit stranded civilians in the embattled city of Aleppo. It also condemned in strongest terms "the atrocious operations waged against the civilians in the city."
The statement called on the UN Security Council to shoulder its full responsibilities with respect of maintaining security and peace and halt the fighting in all Syrian regions. Qatar's delegation to the meeting was led by its Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Delegate to the Arab League Saif bin Muqaddam Al Buainain.
In his speech before the meeting, Al Buainain said the Arab nations and the whole world live the horror of the tragedy in Aleppo in terms of the atrocious genocide committed by the Syrian regime forces and its allies. The indiscriminate constant shelling hits innocent citizens, crushes everything and everybody, and violates all principles of human rights, even the right to live.
The GCC countries are working to hold a special session for the UN General Assembly to put an end to the suffering of the Syrian people, according to Al Buainain.
He added that the Arab League must shoulder its responsibilities and commitments stipulated in the Arab League Charter and crystallise a united Arab stance to force the regime and compel it to stop its inhuman aggression against civilians, in which all types of weapons, including internationally banned weapons, are being used against peaceful unarmed innocents. “Qatar has condemned the vicious war in the strongest words and firmly denounced the horrendous violations by the Syrian regime and its allies,” the ambassador said.
He added that Qatar emphasized the need for the international community to shoulder its responsibilities.
