A joint statement after the meeting of foreign ministers on Sunday urged all parties to cease hostilities in Syria and expressed support for a locally led transitional political process
It called for preventing the re-emergence of extremist groups and ensuring the security and safe destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles
Jordan
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told journalists
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"We don't want Syria to fall into chaos"
Syrian elections
A separate statement by Arab foreign ministers called for UN-supervised elections based on a new constitution approved by Syrians
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Syria did not have an official representative at the meeting in Jordan
Israel's incursion into the buffer zone with Syria
Their statement condemned Israel's incursion into the buffer zone with Syria and adjacent sites over the past week as a "heinous occupation" and demanded the withdrawal of Israeli forces
Assad's brutal dictatorship
Assad fled Syria on December 8 following an 11-day rebel offensive led by HTS, after years of civil war sparked by his violent crackdown on anti-government protests in 2011
The war has killed upwards of 500,000 people and displaced more than half the country's roughly 23 million population
