Arab League welcomes US-Russia agreement over Geneva deal

The Arab League on Wednesday welcomed a recent agreement by Washington and Moscow for putting in place Geneva accords on a solution to the Syrian crisis. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry agreed on Tuesday to put the Geneva accords in place and to hold an international conference on Syria by the end of this month. The agreement was announced during a joint news conference following talks even though both sides are split over the conflict in Syria. The Arab League said in a release it welcomed Kerry-Lavrov agreement purposed to find a way out of the Syrian crisis by political means. Spokesman for Secretary-General of the Arab League Ambassador Nuseif Hatta said in a news release: "We support all suggestion to revive the Geneva accords." "The only solution to the Syrian crisis is a political one on the basis of the Geneva Initiative as there is no military way out of this crisis," he added. Washington and Moscow agreed on the need for a transitional government at a conference in Geneva last June, but failed to determine the fate of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.