Arab League ministers to meet on Syria Wednesday

Arab League foreign ministers will meet in the Moroccan capital Rabat on Wednesday to discuss the Syrian crisis, Algerian foreign ministry spokesman Amar Belani said.We have decided on a meeting of foreign ministers of the Arab League on November 16 at Rabat, on Syria... on the sidelines of a forum between Turkey and the Arab nations, Belani said.Belani said that at a meeting in Cairo on November 2, the Arab Leagues foreign ministers had decided to give Syria 15 days to implement a peace plan Damascus had agreed with the League.Saturdays vote to suspend Syria from the Arab League was not consistent with that earlier decision, he added.Earlier Sunday, Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci had suggested that the Arab Leagues suspension of Syria from its ranks was only temporary.The suspension of Syria is temporary and we will be able to lift it as quickly as possible, he said at a joint press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amer.Medelci also said that Algeria would not be withdrawing its ambassador from Damascus, which the Arab League had suggested its members consider doing.