Arab League demands Assad give up power

2012-08-21 27

The Arab League announced on Sunday that it had agreed to a new plan whereby Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would give up power, allowing a unity government to form and put an end to 10 months of bloody uprising.

The resolution came after Saudi Arabia announced that it would withdraw its observers from the League's monitoring mission, which was dispatched in December to observe the fighting between the government and the armed opposition.

The League said it would ask the United Nations Security Council to support its new resolution.

Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna reports from Cairo.

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