Qatari Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani (C) arrives at the Cartago Hotel to attend the Friends of Syria Conference in Tunis, Tunisia, February 24, 2012. Western and Arab nations met on Friday to demand that Syria implement an immediate ceasefire to allow aid in for desperate civilians in the absence of an international consensus on intervention to end a crackdown on an 11-month-old revolt. UPI/Hichem Borni