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| Brahimi to quit as Syria peace envoy: Diplomats |
| 2013-05-02 |
| [Al Ahram] Syria peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is on the verge of quitting amid growing frustration at deadlocked international efforts to end the worsening conflict, diplomats said Wednesday. Brahimi is "itching to resign but being persuaded to hang on for a few more days," said one UN Security Council diplomat. "He has told everyone that he wants to leave, there is little hope that he will stay," an Arab diplomat at the United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rightsis interesting, to say the least... told AFP. The 79-year-old former Algerian foreign minister was named in place of former UN leader Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... as the UN-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy on August 17 last year. He recognized at the time that he faced an uphill battle. Brahimi has been criticized by the Syrian opposition and Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... 's government said last week it would no longer cooperate with him. Like Annan, before him Brahimi has been increasingly frustrated at the failure of the major powers to agree to a plan on ways to end the two-year-old conflict which has left more than 70,000 dead. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 So who's next? The Jerry Lewis guy? Mr. Potato Head? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2013-05-02 01:16 |