Arab League secretary-general Nabil Elaraby, left, talks to Qatari foreign minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani during an Arab League committee emergency meeting on Syria at the league s headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 23, 2013, ahead of an international peace conference to end the country s civil war.
Arab League secretary general Nabil al-Arabi smiles during an emergency meeting of the Arab League committee on Syria in Cairo on May 23, 2013. Syria's main opposition group opened key talks in Istanbul to debate whether to agree to negotiate with the regime on ending the two-year civil war under a new US-Russia peace initiative.
Arab League secretary-general Nabil Elaraby chairs an Arab League committee emergency meeting on Syria at the league s headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 23, 2013, ahead of an international peace conference to end the country s civil war.
Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby (2nd L) and Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani (R) attend a meeting with the Arab League's committee on Syria at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo May 23, 2013.
Omani Foreign Minister Yousef bin Alawi bin Abdullah, center, arrives to attend an Arab League committee emergency meeting on Syria at the league s headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 23, 2013, ahead of an international peace conference to end the country s civil war.
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi (L) listens to his Egypian counterpart Hosni Mubarak during their meeting 15 August 2005 in Sirte on the Mediterranean coast east of the Libyan capital Tripoli. Kadhafi, Mubarak and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika failed to agree on a date for an extraordinary summit of the Arab League, postponing any decision until after September. The Cairo-based League had said that Arab foreign ministers would meet in early September to discuss the summit, originally due to be held in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on August 3 following triple bombings there that killed at least 67 people.