After rumours of Assad's death, Arab League gives Syrian President’s chair to opposition!

To the outrage of Syria’s embattled government, the opposition coalition leader formally took its vacant seat at an Arab League summit meeting on Tuesday and immediately requested broader recognition, including from the United Nations, as part of an effort to further ostracize President Bashar al-Assad.

“Syrian people alone should determine who rules the country,” the leader of the opposition delegation, Moaz al-Khatib, said in a speech at the Arab League summit meeting in Doha, Qatar, after the host, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, formally invited him to take the seat as other ministers applauded. Mr. Khatib called the Arab League’s decision “part of the restoration of legitimacy that the people of Syria have long been robbed of.”

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