Arab foreign ministers are slated to meet Sunday (August 12th) in Saudi Arabia to discuss the latest developments in Syria, AFP reported.
Ahmed Ben Helli, deputy secretay-general of the Arab League, said the meeting will discuss a successor for Kofi Annan, the former UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria who resigned from his post on August 2nd. Gerard Araud, France's ambassador to the United Nations, said on Friday that the successor will be named early next week.
According to UN diplomats, veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi may be a successor. Brahimi helped broker an end to the Lebanese civil war, served as Algerian foreign minister and has served as the UN special envoy to Afghanistan, Haiti and South Africa. However, in a statement released Friday, Brahimi made no mention of the speculation about his nomination.
"The UN Security Council and regional states must unite to ensure that a political transition can take place as soon as possible," he said in the statement.
"Millions of Syrians are clamouring for peace. World leaders cannot remain divided any longer, over and above their cries," he said.
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امان صالح
2012-8-12
If we have calculated the number of the martyrs and victims in Syria after starting work with Annan plan, we would find that they exceed the number of those who have been murdered before as if this ill-fated plan has become a cover for all the crimes of the Assad regime and allow all his madness. Today, it has become no longer acceptable at all to continue keeping silent given that the blood which has been shed must be taken into consideration and take revenge on the murderers who have continued to kill without finding whoever holds them accountable. The lives which have been claimed are also waiting for honest people to retaliate from those who have unfairly legitimized their lives unjustly and unfairly. Unfortunately, it seems that the international organization and its international envoy are unable to face injustice or may be not worthy of being custodians of the concepts of freedom, justice and equality suggested by the free world. In fact, we are today in front of a real test of the credibility of the slogans of the free world and the Syrian territory is the initial place for this test in which the world may pass or fail.