It has been around two months that Arab league and Syrian government made an agreement to end the violence in Syria, yet the mission has not been accomplished. Last month, Damascus allowed the monitoring team to check out whether the regime put in practice its commitment or not. Few days ago, the mandate expired and the team presented its report to Arab League's foreign ministers who met in Egypt to decide about their next step against the country.

It was largely hoped that after receiving the report they form a united front against Syria, partly because reliable sources reported of terrible violence and crackdown of peaceful protestors during the presence of monitoring in the country. And it was also presumed that report might be tough and hardly critical of regime's cruelty.

Yet none of the assumptions turned out absolutely right as the report crept into League's political and diplomatic pits. Saudi Arabia and Qatar, two Damascus regional rivals and dissent of its close relationship with Islamic Republic of Iran, ask tougher action against the regime. But many other members are in view to give chance to President Bashar-al-Assad to enforce what he promised in November bilateral agreement.

Saudi Arabia has pulled out its observing monitors, arguing that extension of the mission only deteriorates the situation for peaceful protesters and provide chance for the regime to carry out crackdown without fear of likely League's punitive actions; while, chief of the league, Mr. Nabil Elaraby, has called for the extension of the mission, saying that Syria has partly realized its commitment.

In addition, Arab League foreign ministers on Sunday called on President-al-Assad to hand over power to deputy and set up a new unity government. But Syria rejected the request as a conspiracy against the country. SANA State news agency quoted an official source saying, "Syria rejects the decisions of the Arab League ministerial council ... and considers them a violation of its national sovereignty and a flagrant interference in its internal affairs".

So after rejection of League's request, it is not clear what will Arab countries do? It has become further complicated as Syrian regime remained silent against the extension of the monitoring team's mission for another month. The question is: will the ministerial council of Arab League redeploy the monitoring team, after the rejection of the request from President Bashar-al-Assad to hand over power or not? But one thing is clear that the rejection supports the stance of countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia.