The Arab League expects that Syria would sign up "soon" to an observer mission

The Arab League expects that Syria would sign up "soon" to an observer mission, the league’s number two Ahmed Ben Helli said on Saturday.
  
"There are positive signs,” Ahmed Ben Helli told AFP ahead of a meeting of an Arab League ministerial commission in Qatar. "It will not be today," he said, before the meeting, which had originally been scheduled to take place in Cairo alongside a now indefinitely postponed emergency foreign ministers' meeting.
  
Announcing the postponement late on Thursday, Ben Helli said negotiations would continue with the Syrian government to try to convince it to implement an Arab to end the Syrian crisis.

In a letter to the bloc's secretary general, Nabil al-Arabi, Foreign Minister Walid Muallem set a number of terms, notably the withdrawal of the sanctions package.
  
Ben Helli said on Thursday that the League was still holding talks with Syria on its offer.