...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
will reject any initiative made at an Arab League
...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...
summit relating to the violence in Syria, a foreign ministry front man said on Wednesday, adding it would only deal with Arab countries individually.
Syria was suspended from the league in November over a violent crackdown on the uprising against President Bashar Al Assad's rule.
The Arab League, meeting in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
this week, is expected to issue a statement on Syria.
"Since its membership was suspended, Syria will only deal with Arab countries based on state-to-state relationships. Therefore we will not deal with any initiative issued by the vaporous Arab League at any level," front man Jihad Makdisssi said in a statement released to journalists.
Relations between the Arab bloc and Damascus further soured after the Arab League froze a monitoring mission in Syria and proposed a plan for Assad to make a transition from power.
Arab leaders in Storied Baghdad are expected to endorse a six-point proposal from U.N.-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo..., which seeks a ceasefire and political dialogue in what Iraq called a "last chance" for Syria.