The Syrian authorities have allowed around 12 vehicles belonging to the Arab League (AL) to cross into Syria to ensure the movement of the Arab observers mission in the country, private al-Watan daily reported Sunday.

Syria's customs officials have given permission to the drivers of the cars, which hold Qatari and Emirates plates and have been parking a few days along the Jordanian borders, to cross into Syria, said the paper.

The paper said that Syria had provided all arrangements for the vehicles' entry "but there is something that hindered their crossings from the Jordanian side."

It hinted that "political impediments" from the Jordanian side have delayed AL cars crossings.

The AL has recently implored Arab countries to logistically support the mission of the Arab observers mission in Syria, which has started in December of last year to monitor the country's unrest on ground.

A day earlier, AL Deputy Secretary General Ahmed Ben Helli said that Arab foreign ministers are likely to meet on Jan. 22 to discuss the report of the AL's observer mission in Syria.

The AL official was quoted by Egypt's official news agency MENA as saying that the AL ministerial committee in charge of handling the Syrian crisis is likely to meet on Jan. 21, and the report issued by the Arab monitors will be discussed a day later.

Sudanese General Mohammed Ahmed Mostafa al-Dabi, head of the Arab observer mission in Syria, is to submit his report to AL chief Nabil al-Arabi on Jan. 20.

Syria signed the AL observer protocol on Dec. 19, 2011 in Cairo after the AL threatened to take the issue to the United Nations Security Council.

The observers are monitoring the situation in Syria as part of the AL peace initiative to end the months-long turmoil in Syria. The Syrian government said some 2,000 army and security personnel were killed since the unrest began in March, 2011, while the UN said more than 5,000 people have died in the violence.

The observers mission has been widely criticized as ineffective in stopping the violence both inside and outside the country.

Meanwhile, Qatar Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani said in excerpts of an interview released on Saturday that he favored sending Arab troops to Syria to stop the violence there, citing the observers failure to curb the escalating violence in the Middle East nation.

The emir became the first Arab leader to publicly suggest military intervention when he said that "For such a situation ... some troops should go to stop the killing."

The emir, who once had a friendly relationship with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has become one of his harshest critics after failing to convince him to halt the violence in his country.