The statements about the return of Syria to the Arab League “it’s just a scenario”as the reasons for her expulsion continue to apply, Qatar’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdelrahman al-Thani, said Thursday.

“Nothing has been proposed, it is only a scenario for Syria’s (return) to the Arab League, and the decision is left to the Syrian people,” the prime minister said during an interview on the eve of a meeting on Syria being organized in Saudi Arabia, with the participation of nine Arab states, including Qatar.

Today’s meeting will be held five weeks before the next regular meeting of the Arab League on May 19 in Saudi Arabia. Riyadh is reportedly planning to invite the Syrian president to it.

Syria’s membership of the Arab League was suspended after the crackdown in 2011 popular uprising, the trigger for war in that country, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been diplomatically isolated ever since, especially in the Arab world.

“Qatar’s position is clear: there were reasons Syria was left out (of the Arab League) and those reasons are still there.”insisted the head of the government of the emirate of Qatar.

Since the beginning of the armed conflict in Syria, Qatar has supported opposition organizations and offered donations for Syrian refugees.

The war in Syria has claimed the lives of over half a million people, turned millions more into internally displaced persons and refugees, destroyed much of the infrastructure and caused a massive economic and humanitarian crisis.

“The war has stopped, but Syrians are still displaced,” they remain “innocent in prisons,” Qatar’s prime minister said.

“We don’t want to impose solutions on the Syrian people, they have to come up with them, but there has to be a political settlement,” he continued. “We will hear nothing (…) until there is a political settlement,” Sheikh al Thani insisted.