Syria’s leader Bashar Assad has confirmed his attendance at the Arab League summit on Friday, following an invitation from King Salman.
The league had recently restored Syria’s membership after a decade of suspension. The league’s chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat Prince Faisal bin Farhan expressed their support for Syria’s presence at the summit on Wednesday.
Mekdad said that Syria “must be part of any Arab summit.