Arab Solution to Syrian Crisis Bumps into US Sanctions

... much in the outcome of the voting as in whether Syria’s return will be on the agenda at all. Thus, as recently as last fall, Egyptian officials made it clear that the decision to return a seat in the LAS to Assad’s government must be taken unanimously.... ... Damascus and Ankara. However, a unanimous vote is not guaranteed. Bashar Assad’s government has its consistent critics in the Arab world—most notably, Qatar. Kuwait, where sympathy for the Syrian opposition is traditionally strong, also holds on to an ...