{"id":30708,"date":"2019-01-26T19:23:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30708"},"modified":"2019-01-26T19:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T19:23:25","slug":"iran-accuses-france-of-destabilizing-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30708","title":{"rendered":"Iran accuses France of \u2018destabilizing\u2019 region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"49\">\n<p>\nTUNIS: Syria\u2019s \u201cnatural place\u201d is within the Arab League, Tunisia\u2019s foreign minister said Saturday, ahead of the organization\u2019s annual summit in Tunis in March.<br \/>\u201cSyria is an Arab state, and its natural place is within the Arab League,\u201d Khemaies Jhinaoui said during a news conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, who is on a tour of North African countries.<br \/>The Arab League suspended Syria\u2019s membership in November 2011 as the death toll in the country\u2019s civil war mounted.<br \/>\u201cThe question of Syria returning to the Arab League does not depend on Tunisia but on the Arab League,\u201d Jhinaoui said.<br \/>\u201cThe foreign ministers (of member states) will decide on this subject,\u201d he added. \u201cWhat interests us is Syria\u2019s stability and security.\u201d<br \/>Persistent divisions between the Arab League\u2019s member states have worked against Syria\u2019s readmission.<br \/>Russia\u2019s intervention in Syria\u2019s war since 2015 in favor of President Bashar Assad has turned the tide of the conflict in the regime\u2019s favor.<br \/>The UAE reopened its embassy in Damascus in December, the same month as Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir made the first visit of any Arab leader to the Syrian capital since the start of the war. But Qatar earlier this month rejected normalizing ties with Assad.<br \/>Lavrov backed overtures to readmit Syria.<br \/>\u201cAs we have discussed in Algeria and Morocco over the past few days, we would like Tunis to also support Syria\u2019s return to the Arab family, the Arab League,\u201d Russia\u2019s foreign minister said in Tunis, according to Interfax news agency.<br \/>Lavrov, who has also visited Morocco on his tour, also said Tunisia and Russia agreed to ramp up \u201canti-terror cooperation.\u201d<br \/>Russia\u2019s foreign minister is due to meet Tunisia\u2019s president and prime minister on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS: Syria\u2019s \u201cnatural place\u201d is within the Arab League, Tunisia\u2019s foreign minister said Saturday, ahead of the organization\u2019s annual summit in Tunis in March.\u201cSyria is an Arab state, and its natural place is within the Arab League,\u201d Khemaies Jhinaoui said during a news conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, who is on a tour&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}