Lakhdar Brahimi to become new Syria envoy

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Lakhdar Brahimi to become new Syria envoy

2012-08-17

The United Nations on Friday (August 17th) appointed veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi as the new UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for "strong, clear and unified" support of Brahimi when he announced the appointment in a statement.

Brahimi, 78, has held a long series of high-profile diplomatic posts, the BBC reported.

As under-secretary-general of the Arab League between 1984-91, he helped broker an end to the Lebanese civil war, going on to serve as Algeria’s foreign minister between 1991-3.

Later, Brahimi was twice appointed as the UN's special envoy to Afghanistan. He held similar roles for Haiti and South Africa.

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ابراهيم حمود

2012-8-20

The Government and the other Syrian authorities must release all detainees who had participated in demonstrations and peaceful protests. Besides, the Syrian Government must guarantee the liberties, especially freedom of the press. The Syrian authorities must also allow citizens to go on peaceful demonstrations and protests. On the other hand, the Arab Governments must call for a meeting of the foreign ministers to take critical positions to resolve this problem. In this respect, the Arab Governments should emphasize the role of the League of Arab States and revive this regional league. The latter is supposed to take a firm decision against the Syrian regime which threatens its existence. The Arab Governments must stand united in order to address the actions of the corrupt Syrian regime.
جواد ناصر

2012-8-18

All the crimes carried out by the Syrian regime every day are becoming more heinous. However, there are lots of things which indicate that the Syrian regime is about to suffer from weaknesses, especially as there are many States which put pressure on the States that support it and once abandoning it, the Syrian regime will face the worst end. Its end will be similar to the previous oppressors. The end of the tyrant has approached and he has been getting confused. Everything he is doing to the people is only a thing given from his severe punishment that he is awaiting.
حازم

2012-8-18

There should be plenty of decisions that must be taken against this unjust regime which increased the oppression and tyranny. The States must stop helping it and put an end for it in order to weaken the Syrian regime. The Syrian regime is gaining strength and confidence with the help of Iran and Russia, but if they abandoned it, its position would be very bad. There must be firm decisions by the Security Council against those States that support it in carrying out its crimes. They must confess the oppression of that regime and because they gave it the opportunity to work on exterminating the people, very soon we will see the end of this tyrant which filled the lives of the Syrians with much destruction.