DAMASCUS – Syria's Foreign Minister says Damascus has signed an Arab League agreement allowing Arab observers into the country.
Speaking in Damascus, Walid al-Moallem says the agreement was signed "a while ago" in Cairo. He says the deal was signed after the Arab League accepted amendments demanded by Syria.
An Arab League official in Cairo confirmed the deal was signed Monday by Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad.
The Arab League had given Syria until Wednesday to sign the deal. It had warned that if Damascus does not, the League says it will likely turn to the U.N. Security Council for action to try to end the Syrian regime's crackdown on a 9-month-old popular uprising.
