Exclusive: List of Syrian banned personalities according to Arab diplomatic sources

Echorouk envoy to Cairo Abdennour BoukhamkhamTranslated by Reda BouzouinaArab diplomatic sources revealed to Echorouk in Cairo that an initial list of more than ten Syrian security high ranking officials will be banned from traveling in the Arab league’s member countries. The decision will also be accompanied with financial measures aiming at freezing assets of the same officials the same source told Echorouk under anonymity.

The source spoke to Echorouk on the sidelines of the first meeting of the Executive Technical Committee responsible for monitoring the implementation of the decision of Arab foreign ministers to impose economic sanctions on Syria. The Executive Technical Committee meeting was held yesterday at the headquarters of the League of Arab States at the senior officials and experts’ level.

 
When asked about the nature and status of the Syrian officials involved in the decision of the travel ban, the same source said they were security high ranking officials in the Syrian army and intelligence bodies known for their personal involvement in oppressing and torturing protesters in Syria, but he denied the ban included any other Syrian political officials, and thus not including President Bashar al-Assad or his Foreign Minister Walid Muallem.

With this new stage stepped, it seems that the Arab League wants to preserve a minimum of communication with Syrian officials in line with the recent Arab League Secretary General‘s readiness to make a slight modification on the Protocol aimed at sending an Arab observers mission to   Syria.   

The step shows that the Arab League might be in a position that would try to implement European ban on Syria with some mitigation letting President Assad and his key ministers outside the battle.  The same source told Echorouk that the AL adopted in part, the list prepared by the European Union before the names of Syrian officials banned from traveling with the freezing of assets.

  
the source said an Arab diplomat to the Arab League the past really to formally recognize the legal ban on flights between Syria and Arab countries, the beginning of next week, and started several airlines Gulf already suspended its flights to Syria, the first of the two airlines Emirates and Qatar.

Finally, the EIU denied it suspended any flights from and to Syria through its minister of economy, Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri, who was reacting to media reports claiming that Dubai Government has banned flights to Syria.

This coincided with the launch of Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu yesterday launched a new offensive on the Syrian regime, saying that Syria “has missed every opportunity and went to the end of the road.” He announced that his country has decided to impose economic and financial sanctions on the Syrian regime to continue to suppress the protest to demand the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. The sanctions include a freeze on trade with the Syrian government, as well as exchanges between the Central Banks of the Syrian and Turkish. He added that Turkey also would suspend its cooperation with the strategic Damascus and stop all arms exports to all loans will be frozen as the Turkish-Syrian