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Arab States Weekly Review 12th – 18th Nov 2011

The Arab League voted to suspend Syria’s membership and apply sanctions, after Presidet Assad failed to implement a plan to end the violence. Turkey joined the call for action and King Abdullah of Jordan said Mr Assad should go.

An Egyptian court ruled that members of former President Mubarak’s National Democratic Party, which was dissolved after the was ousted in February, will be allowed to run in the forthcoming elections. A lower court had banned party members from standing.