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Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah speaks at the opening session of the United Nations Climate Change conference in Doha, Qatar, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

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Organizers gather at the opening of the 18th United Nations climate change conference in Doha, Qatar, on Monday. (Associated Press)

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South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane speaks at the opening session of the U.N. Climate Change conference in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

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George Sabra, the new head of the Syrian National Council, the main Syrian opposition bloc in exile, speaks to reporters Nov. 10, 2012, during a press conference on the sidelines of the General Assembly of the Syrian National Council meeting in Doha, Qatar. (Associated Press)

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Syrian regime opponent George Sabra , center, during the vote count of the election of the Executive Office of the Syrian National Council in Doha, Qatar, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

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Maj. Gen. Mohammed Fares, an ex-Syrian astronaut who defected in August and joined the main umbrella group for opponents of the Assad regime, attends a meeting of the general assembly of the Syrian National Council in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmed Khalil, Syrian National Council)

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Attendees at an Arab League conference on Syria on Monday, July 2, 2012, in Cairo include (from left) Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu; Khalid Al Attiya, Qatar minister of state for international cooperation; Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Hoshyar Zebari; Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby; Sheik Sabah Khalid Al Hamad Al Sabah, the Kuwaiti foreign minister; Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr; and Palestinian envoy Nasser Al Qudwa. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Khaled Mashaal (right), chief of the Islamic militant group Hamas, sit with Qatar's crown prince, Sheik Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, as they sign a reconciliation agreement in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Thaer Ghanaim, Palestinian President's Office)

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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (right), Qatar Foreign Minister Khalid Mohamed A. Al-Attiyah (center) and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed K. Amr participate in a panel discussion at the Conference on Security Policy on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 in Munich. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

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Addison Reel, 2, of Dover, Del., checks out posters at BWI airport while waiting for her father, Air Force Tech Sgt. Scott Reel, who arrived on a flight from Qatar on Dec. 1. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Pro-Syrian regime protesters shout slogans against the Arab League as a woman throws an egg during a protest in front of the embassy of Qatar, in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday Nov. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

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Mustafa Abdul-Jalil (left), head of the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council, and Major Gen. Hamad bin Ali al-Attiyah, Qatari chief of staff, look on during NATO talks in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

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A cafe owner (center) makes espresso in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday while news coverage of the Doha, Qatar, talks on the Libyan crisis plays on a TV in the background and a man seen reflected in the shop window (left) walks past outside. (AP Photo)

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Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague (right), listening to Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, said after Tuesday's London Conference on Libya the subject of arming rebels did not come up. "That was not one of the subjects for discussion," he said. (Associated Press)