...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
chief Nabil al-Arabi will propose that Syrian
President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
hold elections in three years and immediately halt a crackdown on dissent when he visits Damascus
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City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
Wednesday, according to a copy of the proposals seen by Agence La Belle France Presse.
Arabi, who was tasked by Arab foreign ministers with relaying the 13-point document, will also ask Assad to free political prisoners and compensate those maimed in more than five months of almost daily anti-regime protests.
The proposal, agreed at an Arab foreign ministers' meeting last month in Cairo, calls for a "clear declaration of principles by President Bashir al-Assad specifying commitment to reforms he made in past speeches."
It said Assad should declare his "commitment to making the transition towards a pluralistic government and use his powers to speed up reforms and announce multi-candidate elections ... for 2014, when his mandate ends."
It also demands an immediate halt to the Syrian government's crackdown on anti-regime protests.
At the August 27 meeting, the Arab ministers had called for an end the bloodshed "before it is too late" and for "respecting the right of the Syrian people to live in security and respecting their legitimate aspirations for political and social reforms."
More than 2,200 people have been killed in Syria since the almost daily mass protests began, according to the United Nations
...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
. Assad's regime says it is fighting foreign-backed "armed terrorist gangs."
The proposal also calls on Assad's minority Alawite-led government "to immediately end" the crackdown on protesters in order "to spare Syria from sliding into sectarian strife or providing justification for foreign intervention."
The initiative also calls on Assad to "separate the military from political and civil life" and for the start of "serious political contacts between the president and representatives of the Syrian opposition."