Monday, August 20, 2012

Syria's new UN envoy named

From Homeland Security NewsWire:

Veteran diplomat Brahimi replaces Anan as UN envoy to Syria

20 August 2012

The UN Security Council last Thursday decided to end to UN observers mission to Syria, and replace the Kofi Annan, who resigned as UN envoy to Syria two weeks ago, with veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahhimi; Annan’s efforts at mediation were equally pointless. The reason: both sides believed they would eventually prevail, and thus had no incentive to negotiate or compromise

The UN Security Council last Thursday decided to end to UN observers mission to Syria, and replace the Kofi Annan, who resigned as UN envoy to Syria two weeks ago, with veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahhimi.

A few hundred UN observers were sent to Syria to monitor cease-fire agreements between the regime and the insurgents, but there were no such agreements and thus nothing to monitor. The observers were able, on a few occasions, to verify claims of atrocities by the regime and its militias against civilians in towns and villages in insurgent-controlled areas, but even such reporting typically lagged behind smartphone videos and journalistic reports from the field....



Read more here, as the new envoy says his mission is to end the [un]civil war.

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