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As a result, the Rwandan government decided to consider positively this request and the dissident arrived in Doha, and he is waiting to travel to join his family in the American city of Houston. The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed his gratitude to the Rwandan government and the American side for their cooperation in facilitating reaching this result, pointing out that Qatar is an essential partner for development efforts in Rwanda, and there are positive relations and great trust between the leaderships of the two countries that allowed it to play this role, not to mention its strategic relations with the US. Regarding what is currently being raised about Syria’s return to the Arab League, Dr Majed Al Ansari affirmed that there is still no Arab consensus on the return of the Syrian regime to the Arab League, stressing that the Qatari position is firm and there is no normalisation with this regime until the reasons that called for boycotting it are no longer there.
He pointed out that Qatar deals with this issue as one of the priorities of Arab issues, so the Arab consensus in it is an important matter. Until this consensus is achieved which comes as a result of positive developments on the Syrian scene which are not available so far, there will be no change in the Qatari position, he said, adding that Qatar’s position is clear and steadfast and is not affected by what is going on in the scene unless there are real developments inside Syria in a way that satisfies the aspirations of the Syrian people, or there is an Arab consensus based on these positive developments inside Syria. At the present time there is no reason for optimism about the existence of a proximity to normalization with the Syrian regime and its return to the Arab League, he said. Affirming Qatar’s welcome and support for Arab efforts in the framework of finding a solution to the Syrian crisis, he stressed that this solution must be based on positive developments and a real response to popular demands, and that there should be no betrayal to the blood shed to achieve these aspirations.
