Western leaders and Gulf states clash over return of Syrian president after years of war against his own people
The Syrian president is to attend his first Arab League summit in 13 years on Friday as the west and Gulf states clash overUnited Arab Emirates
that has already led to objections in Washington and London, which say the Syrian leader has shown no contrition for the millions who have been killed and displaced by his forces since pro-democracy protests started in 2011 and no willingness to change his brutal behaviour.
The UAE is hosting the event and the invitation to Assad poses a dilemma for western politicians such as John Kerry and Rishi Sunak, who if they attend will find themselves in the same room as a man who remains subject to international sanctions for the use of chemical weapons, war crimes and extrajudicial killings. There is no sign that the UAE consulted western diplomats before issuing the invitation.
“We have to invent new ways to meet the challenges facing our countries,” said the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud. He will be pressing the largely toothless summit to make progress in ending the wars in Sudan and Yemen.
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