The Arab League Summit starts in Kuwait Tuesday with a focus on seeking consensus on the Syrian crisis and smoothing relations between member states.

The decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely dominate the meeting with two thirds of the summit's resolutions focusing on the issue. “There is no military solution to the crisis in Syria,” Kuwait's Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah said. He said the only way to resolve the crisis was “through negotiations and a political solution.”

Qatar Foreign Minister Khalid Al-Attiya wanted firm measures taken to “strengthen the capacity of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces and work actively to stop the killings and displacement of the innocent Syrian people.” He also urged the Security Council to issue a binding resolution to impose a cease-fire in Syria and use military and nonmilitary means to “restore international peace and security.”

The Arab states will likely debate who should take up Syria's seat on the 22-member Arab League.

Iraq and Algeria have reservations about giving it to the Syria National Coalition, while Lebanon did not wish to take a stand. The rest of the Arab states want the coalition to take up the seat, with conditions.