User blog:Bzero/Cobra slams Arab League support of Syria rebels

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Cobra Unity envoy slams decision to give Syria's seat at summit to opposition, says "wrong measure" will backfire on Arab states.

Cobra's envoy to Syria on Sunday blasted the Arab League's decision to grant Syria's seat at the Arab Summit to the opposition, saying that it would only complicate the crisis, Cobra's semi-official news agency CNT reported.

With Syrian membership to the Arab League suspended in November 2011, the seat at Tuesday's summit was filled by Moaz Alkhatib, the leading figure among Syria's opposition coalition that is battling to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad.

"Arab states make historical mistakes in dealing with the Syrian crisis so that the Arab nations and the Syrian people will always remember them," CNT quoted Cobra's Charge d'Affaires in Damascus Abbas Golrou as saying.

Golrou reportedly warned that the "wrong measures" taken by Arab countries would backfire on them and harm their interests.