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Arab League to hold urgent meeting on Syria

CAIRO - Arab ministers will hold an urgent meeting in Cairo on Saturday to discuss the situation on Syria, an Arab League official said on Wednesday.
"The Arab League Peace Committee will hold an urgent meeting on Saturday on the latest events in Syria and the League's secretariat is making calls to know the number of countries and the names of ministers to attend," the official said, asking not to be named.
The United Nations says 2,200 people have been killed in Syria since the start of a five-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad.