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By Dominic Evans

Arab states may take their proposals for ending Syria’s crackdown on protests to the U.N. Security Council next week unless Damascus agrees to implement the initiative, Qatar’s foreign minister said on Saturday.

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Expressing frustration that Syria had not carried out the plan, six weeks after it was first agreed, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani said the window for an Arab solution to the crisis was closing.

“If this matter is not solved in the weeks ahead, or couple of months, it will no longer be in Arab control,” he told journalists after an Arab ministerial committee meeting in Qatar. “That is what we told the Syrians from the beginning.”

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Arab ministers would vote on Wednesday on whether to ask the Security Council to approve the initiative. “I believe that December 21 will be decisive, and we hope that the brothers in Syria will sign (the deal) before this date,” Sheikh Hamad said.