Kofi: Too late for military intervention in Syria
![](/Mugshots/kofi-anan.jpg) It usually is when the U.N. is involved... | GENEVA Former UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to Syria says it is too late for military intervention there and that arming President Bashar Al Assads foes will not end the two-year-old crisis.
Annan, who resigned in August blaming finger-pointing at the United Nations Security Council for the impasse in his mediation, called for a political solution based on an agreement reached by world powers in Geneva in June. I dont see a military intervention in Syria. We left it too late. Im not sure it would not do more harm, he told the Graduate Institute in Geneva on Tuesday night.
Further militarisation of the conflict, Im not sure that is the way to help the Syrian people. They are waiting for the killing to stop. You find some people far away from Syria are the ones very keen for putting in weapons. My own view is that as late as it is we have to find a way of pouring water on the fire rather than the other way around.
Posted by: Steve White 2013-03-28 |