Summary Resolution says Arab states free to send forces in support of fighting rebels.
CAIRO (Agencies) - Arab foreign ministers have offered the Syrian opposition coalition the country s seat at the Arab League on condition that it first forms a representative executive council.
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby announced to offer to the Syrian National Coalition, the Western- and Arab-backed opposition umbrella group, on Wednesday in Cairo.
The 22-member Arab League suspended Syria s membership in 2011 after President Bashar Assad s government did not abide by an Arab peace plan that aimed to end the conflict.
Arab states are free to offer military support to rebels fighting the forces of Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad, according to a draft Arab League resolution seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
So far the League has stressed that the Syrian opposition and rebels should be supported by humanitarian and diplomatic means.
Separately, Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby told a news conference that League ministers meeting in Cairo had invited the opposition Syrian National Coalition to choose a representative to attend a League meeting to be held in Doha later this month.
He said the Coalition would take the seat of Syria, which was occupied by Damascus until it was suspended from the organisation in 2011.
