Damascus is to sign later on Monday an agreement aimed at ending the nine months unrest.

Damascus is to sign later on Monday an agreement aimed at ending the nine months unrest.

Agence France Press quoted an Arab diplomat as saying, on condition of anonymity,  that the “Syrian government is going to sign the protocol this afternoon”.
The diplomat added that Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Maqdad would ink the document at Arab League headquarters in Cairo.

League officials declined to comment but airport sources confirmed that the Syrian minister had arrived in the Egyptian capital.

The Omani minister responsible for foreign affairs said on Sunday that he was "optimistic" that Syria would ink the deal on Monday.
"We are optimistic that Syria will join the Arab League and sign the protocol within the next 24 hours," Yussef bin Alawi told reporters in Riyadh.

For his part, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al-Thani, who chairs a League taskforce on Syria, also said that "we have received information stating that he (Syrian President Bashar al-Assad) will sign the protocol."
"We'll see if it's true," he added.