At a time when a number of Arab journalists were preparing to go to one of the major hotels in Brussels to follow the coordination meeting of the Arab delegation that arrived in the capital of united Europe to hold talks with officials there last Monday on the sidelines of the foreign ministers’ meetings to give details related to the activation of the Arab Peace Initiative, everyone was surprised by the decision. The meeting was transferred to the headquarters of the European Ministerial Council.
Arab diplomatic sources said that moving the meeting came in implementation of a request from Amr Moussi, Secretary-General of the Arab League, to avoid a confrontation between the official Syrian delegation participating in the meeting, headed by Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem, and elements of the Syrian opposition from the National Salvation Front, supporters of former Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam. A number of them happened to be at the hotel the same morning.
The same sources said that a number of Arab League employees noticed the presence of Abdul Halim Khaddam, the former Syrian Vice President, and a number of opposition figures who are members of the National Salvation Front, shortly before the arrival of the Syrian delegation headed by Al-Muallem, and informed Moussi of the matter.
In order to avoid a confrontation or crisis, the Secretary-General of the League decided to move the coordination meeting to the headquarters of the Ministerial Council, where the meeting would take place with the European side. Indeed, a phone call was made to the Syrian delegation, which was near the hotel, and its itinerary changed and it headed to the Syrian embassy and after a short time to the headquarters of the European Ministerial Council.
n a phone call with Abdel Halim Khaddam’s son, Jihad, he told Al-Masry Al-Youm: Most of the Front members left the hotel on Sunday evening, and the former Syrian Vice President and a few with him left the hotel headquarters at nine in the morning on Monday, and no confrontation took place with Walid Al-Muallem, who was scheduled to arrive. The hotel at eleven in the morning, but there was a call and meeting with the delegation of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, and the Jordanian delegation, and there was the Palestinian delegation, and a positive meeting was held between a number of members of the Syrian opposition front and a number of Arab ministers on Sunday evening. There were positive talks and the meeting dealt with the situation of the Syrian opposition and relations with Arab countries.
He confirmed that the opposition left the hotel before the teacher arrived, but perhaps some of the teacher’s followers wanted to promote the existence of an attempt by the Syrian opposition to interact with him with the intention of attracting sympathy for them, and to show that the Syrian opposition is barbaric, even though it is the Syrian regime that can be described as barbaric with its practices, arrests, and rulings against the leaders. The Syrian opposition inside He added: We were afraid that we would be attacked by the Syrian delegation, and that is why we left the hotel before the official delegation arrived.
