{"id":30726,"date":"2019-01-26T23:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30726"},"modified":"2019-01-26T23:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:23:20","slug":"palestinian-killed-by-israeli-fire-in-west-bank-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30726","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in West Bank clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52\">\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 United Arab Emirates reopened its embassy in Damascus in December, the same month Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir made the first visit of any Arab leader to the Syrian capital since the start of the war.<br \/>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 he said in Tunis.<br \/>Lavrov, who has also visited Morocco on his tour, said that Tunisia and Russia agreed to ramp up \u201canti-terror cooperation.\u201d<br \/>In reference to Franco-Italian differences on Libya, he said: \u201cWe must harmonize the efforts of outside mediators seeking a settlement to the Libyan conflict.<br \/>\u201cThis must be done under the sponsorship of the United Nations and taking into account the points of view of neighbors such as Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt.\u201d<br \/>Russia\u2019s foreign minister, winding up his North Africa visit, also met 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":30727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30726","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\/30726","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=30726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}