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Aboul Gheit: Al-Assad can participate in the Arab League summit

May 7, 2023

Aboul Gheit said on Sunday: “Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can participate in the League summit if he wishes.”

The Arab League summit will be held on May 19 in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

And Arab foreign ministers on Sunday adopted a decision to send Syria back to take its seat in the League of Arab States, after a 12-year absence.

This came in the official decision issued after the meeting of the Council of the League of Arab States at ministerial level, chaired by Egypt, during its extraordinary session.

The Arab League suspended Syria’s membership in 2011 when civil war broke out.

Recently, some Arab countries have resumed dealing with Syria through high-level visits and meetings.

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Arab Desk

Arab Desk

The Arab Desk leads The Eastern Herald's reporting on the Middle East and North Africa. The desk has covered the Gaza-Israel war since October 2023, the Iran-Israel war of 2025-2026, the fall of the Assad government in Syria, Hezbollah's political and military shifts in Lebanon, the war in Yemen, and the diplomatic realignment of the Gulf states under the Abraham Accords and the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.

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