Expert: Syria's return to the Arab League will be "a blow for Trump"

Oleg Fomin, co-chair of the Russian Solidarity Committee with the Syrian and Libyan peoples, said the Arab world could provide an appropriate response to US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights and to send Syria back to the League of Arab States.

"I had hoped that in Tunisia, when the League of Arab States would meet, it would decide to send Syria's membership back to this university," Fomin said at the round table held today. 39 by the Russian media group on the Golan Heights. "He said.

On Monday, US President Donald Trump signed in Washington a joint statement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the AIPAC meeting on a presidential statement backing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. "Protect Israel's security against threats".

Arab and European countries and other countries around the world have lamented the US's decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Syrian Golan, stressing that the move undermined the Middle East peace process.

Earlier, he had announced that countries such as Lebanon, Algeria, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain had supported the United States. idea of ​​the return of Syria to the university. However, League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said that the restoration of all members of Damascus requires the approval of all members of the League of Arab States. "Until now, there is no objection and some do not disclose his position".

The Arab League has suspended Syria's membership in the university since the beginning of the conflict in 2011. The current members are: Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, Qatar, Comoros, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan and Tunisia.