Kofi Annan, the joint UN-Arab League envoy and sponsor of a six-point peace plan, flew to Damascus to plead with President Bashar Assad to uphold the ceasefire ostensibly in place since April.
According to a report by Egypt's official news agency, Mena, Mr Morsi - currently in Qatar for a meeting of the Arab League - now estimates the polls will be held as late as October.
The United States -- along with members of the European Union and the Arab League -- have offered other types of help, though, such as communications equipment and humanitarian aid.
Amr Moussa, the 22-state Arab League's secretary-general, paid a rare visit to Gaza earlier this month but met Hamas officials as members of a faction, not as Gaza's official authority, and asked Hamas's security guards not to escort him.
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The diplomatic action came as UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan held talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
The UN-Arab League plan, brokered by envoy Kofi Annan, would see a UN-monitored end to fighting, troops pulled out of opposition areas and access for humanitarian services.
In Egypt's al-Ahrar newspaper on Monday, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa was quoted as saying that the allegations that military supplies were entering Iraq from Syria would increase the volatility of the regional situation.
We're going to be seeking actual support by those nations -- the Arab League, the GCC and the African nations -- to participate in any of these efforts as they go forward.
His speech last month was described by UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi as "narrow and uncompromising".
Yesterday, Assad announced another PR ploy: the acceptance of an Arab League-brokered cease fire in his country.
After months of violence, Arab League-U.N. envoy Kofi Annan weeks ago helped broker what he hoped was a cease-fire.
World powers have hailed the appointment of veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi as the new UN-Arab League envoy for Syria.
It is the third visit to Damascus by Mr Brahimi since he was appointed joint UN-Arab League envoy to Syria in August.
Shaaban reiterated a comment made by other Syrian officials, that Damascus still holds hope that the peace plan put forth by Arab League-U.N.
Despite repeated failures to bring about a negotiated solution to the conflict, the United Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, continues to push for one.
In a separate development on Sunday, UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called for international backing for a Syrian opposition offer to negotiate with some government officials.
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His words were echoed by the UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, who told the New York gathering that Syria would become a failed state unless a negotiated political solution to the conflict could be found.
The secretaries-general of the UN and the 22-country Arab League also attended, along with the EU's foreign-affairs chief.
Amr Moussa, the secretary-general of the Arab League, is an arch-exponent of this conditioned response.
In contrast Amre Moussa, the secretary-general of the Arab League, and Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, both made warmly received speeches admitting to problems in the Arab world but urging America to let Arabs decide how to solve them.
Amr Moussa, the former foreign minister and secretary-general of the Arab League, is at present the front-runner.
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The Arab League re-endorsed the offer in 2007 and technically it remains in effect.
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby arrived Sunday in Baghdad with a small delegation in advance of the summit.
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby arrived Sunday in Baghdad for the summit with a small delegation, Iraqiya TV reported.
And the reporter noted that other countries are involved -- the Arab League has gotten behind this, et cetera.
Arab League Secretary-General Amre Moussa said there was no discussion of deploying Arab troops in Iraq before a new U.N. resolution and a sovereign Iraqi government are in place.
Again, actions not just by the West, but indeed by the entire international community, including a full range of regional actors -- the Arab League, the African Union, GCC.
The annual meeting of the 22-member Arab League , scheduled for March 29th and 30th in Tunis, failed to happen at all, with Arab leaders arguing over the reasons for its postponement.
Also Monday, the opposition's exile political leadership, the Syrian National Coalition, said a delegation was heading to Doha, where the Gulf state of Qatar will host a two-day Arab League summit starting Tuesday.
The Arab League proposals - accepted by the government of President Bashar al-Assad - include the release of prisoners, the withdrawal of security forces from the streets and talks between the government and opposition.
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