An EU official said that Europe was considering a coordinated withdrawal of all diplomatic contacts with Damascus.

Years have passed since Turkey has been trying hard to join the European Union. However, the issue now needs Ankara, which is the Syrian crisis. For the first time Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu will attend an EU meeting, which is going to discuss plans to pull all the ambassadors of the regional bloc from Damascus.

An EU official said that Europe was considering a coordinated withdrawal of all diplomatic contacts with Damascus ahead of a new push at the United Nations for action against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The official said the meeting would take place next Thursday and Friday at Brussels.

Agence France Press cited to senior two senior EU sources aas confirming that the next week meeting would include Davutogu who cancelled a planned trip last month -- and will focus on "possible closures of the EU embassies in Syria”.

The agency added that responding to publication of documented transcripts of ambassadors' talks over the past two weeks in which the EU's European External Action Service (EEAS) spelled out the plan, a spokesman for EEAS head Catherine Ashton, Michael Mann, said that several options remained on the table.

Ashton's top managers set out all the alternatives, that "all EU delegations depart, some remain and none move," Mann said, adding that Ashton's red line centered on EU -- as opposed to national -- staff remaining in Syria.