SYRIA said it was still negotiating with the Arab League over the latter’s request to send observers into the country.
News agency AP quoting a Foreign Ministry spokesman said the talks were making some, but there was no official announcement on whether Syria would sign the agreement.
The Arab League had set Sunday as the deadline for Syria to agree to a final invitation by league to sign – and comply with – an agreement to end government violence against civilian protesters. However, even by late Sunday afternoon the Syrian leadership had not made up its mind.
Meanwhile, at least nine people were killed in new violence on Sunday, including a female university professor and a father and his three children in central Syria.
Syrian activists also said a US-born Syrian blogger was arrested at the Syrian-Jordanian border while on her way to attend a workshop for advocates of press freedoms in the Arab world.
According to a statement by the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression the blogger, Razan Ghazzawi, was arrested by police and immigration officials at the border while on her way to Amman to attend the conference as a representative of the center.
Ghazzawi is a human rights advocate and had been documenting violations and arrests in Syria since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad in March.
The bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters, the UN estimates, has so far resulted in the deaths of over 4,000 people.
Last Sunday, the Arab League approved sanctions against Syria, which included cutting off transactions with the Syrian central bank and halting Arab government funding for projects in Syria. Agencies
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