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Action Group meeting 'strong push' for Annan's Syria plan: Kuwait FM   

Kuwait News Agency - 01 July, 2012

Kuwait Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said Saturday the outcome of the Action Group meeting over Syria was a "strong push" for international mediator Kofi Annan's plan.

There are principles and guidelines that should be implemented by the Arab League Secretary General and Annan in order to bring about success of a transition process in Syria, Sheikh Sabah, also Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, told KUNA after the one-day meeting of the Action Group for Syria.

He said a document endorsed by all parties that took part in the meeting would be discussed with the Syrian oppositionin Cairo, and the Friends of Syria conference in Paris.
Sheikh Sabah said there were guarantees that the UN Security Council (UNSC) would be the body to follow up the implementation of the action plan.

He said unity of the Syrian opposition was important.
 
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