Official Source: Syria Is Surprised and Regrets al-Arabi's Decision to Suspend Arab Monitoring Mission

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jouhina news, An official source on Saturday stated that the Syrian Arab Republic is surprised and regrets the decision of the Arab League (AL) Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi to suspend the Arab monitoring mission after having agreed to extend it for another month upon the AL General Secretariat's request in light of the report submitted by the mission's head General Mohammed Mustafa al-Dabi to the AL Ministerial Council. "It was clear that the Arab monitors' report didn't please some countries at the League because of what it included regarding acknowledging and documenting the presence of armed groups that have been targeting the civilians, the military and law enforcement forces and the public and private institutions as well as the gas and oil pipelines," the source said. "Nabil al-Arabi's decision," the source added, "came in preparation for the Security Council meeting scheduled next Tuesday upon the request of Qatar and the AL General Secretariat with the aim of exerting negative impact and pressures in the discussions with a view to calling for foreign interference in the Syrian internal affairs and encouraging more violence against the citizens by the armed groups." The source continued that the AL Secretary General's decision goes in line with that of the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council to withdraw their monitors, "which came as a reaction to the Arab monitoring mission's report and not because of what the Secretary General claimed on the continued use of violence and exchange of shelling and fire." The source stressed that the Syrian Arab Republic is still committed to making the Arab monitoring mission a success and providing protection to the monitors according to the items of the protocol signed with the Arab League and to the Arab Work Plan which provides that the Syrian government is committed to end violence whatever its source.