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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
UN monitors leaving Syria
2012-08-19
The last UN observers who deployed in Syria four months ago to monitor Annan's failed cease-fire will leave after midnight on Sunday, when their mandate expires. They will leave a "liaison office" open in Damascus after their departure, though its size and role have not been finalized, a UN spokeswoman said.

"The comfort for me is that the UN will stay in the country," General Babacar Gaye, head of the departing UN Supervision Mission in Syria, told reporters in Damascus. "The United Nations is committed to ending violence, committed to triggering dialogue between the parties."

Brahimi, a Nobel Peace laureate,
Given the others who've been given that, it's a wonder the gentleman admits to it...
will have a new title, Joint Special Representative for Syria. Diplomats said the change was to distance him from Annan, who had complained that his Syria peace plan was hampered by a divided Security Council.
In an interview with France 24 television, Brahimi said he would soon meet with the Security Council.

"We are going to discuss very seriously how they can help," he said. "They are asking me to do this job. If they don't support me, there is no job. They are divided, but surely they can unite on something like this and I hope they will."
Posted by:Steve White

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