Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Sunday his country would ask for "clarifications" from the Arab League on its plan to send monitors to his country before giving a final reply, dpa reported.
"These clarifications are prompted by concern about our national sovereignty," al-Moallem told a press conference in the capital Damascus.
He accused unspecified Arab countries of manipulating the pan-Arab organization to refer the Syrian crisis to the United Nations.