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AL chief, UN envoy to discuss Syrian issue Tuesday

18 December 2012 01:41 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Arab League (AL) chief Nabil al- Arabi will meet with UN-AL Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi Tuesday in Cairo on the Syrian issue, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

A source from AL was quoted by official MENA news agency as saying that the two will discuss the results of recent talks between the UN-AL envoy and several foreign ministers of the European Union states on the Syrian issue, as well as the current situation of the 21-month-old crisis in Syria.

For his part, Arabi will inform the UN envoy about the latest contact with Syrian opposition camps and international officials on the crisis.

The source added that the talk will also touch upon the " transition period" in the country, the international position on the crisis, and the role of the opposition bloc National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, which was formed by Syrian opposition groups in early November in Qatar's Doha.