The U.N. Security Council meets to discuss a European-Arab draft resolution endorsing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power in New York Feb. 4, 2012.
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Yussef al-Ahmad, Syria's ambassador to the Arab League, is surrounded by cameramen during the Arab League emergency session on Syria at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011 . The Arab League has voted to suspend Syria from all meetings until it implements plan to end bloodshed.
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Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Mussa, left, and Lebanese Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammud, right, attend the opening of the foreign ministers' meeting at Beirut's Phoenicia Hote
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The U.N. Security Council meets to discuss a European-Arab draft resolution endorsing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power in New York Feb. 4, 2012
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A general view of Arab foreign ministers during their meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo January 22, 2012.
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L to R: Egyptian Vice-President Omar Suleiman; Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, talks with Qatari Prime Minister Sheik Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo
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U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte, left, arrives for a U.N. security council meeting with an observer of the Arab League and the Russian Ambassador
