UN envoy admits international efforts to find political solution in Syria ‘have failed’

haaretz.com
July 7, 2012

Special UN envoy Kofi Annan acknowledged in an interview published Saturday that the international community’s efforts to find a political solution to the escalating violence in Syria have failed.

Annan told the French daily Le Monde that more attention needed to be paid to the role of longtime Syrian ally Iran, and that countries supporting military actors in the conflict were making the situation worse. “The evidence shows that we have not succeeded,” he said.

Annan, the special envoy for the United Nations and the Arab League, is the architect of the most prominent international plan to end the crisis in Syria, which activists say has killed more than 14,000 people since March, 2011.

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This article was posted: Saturday, July 7, 2012 at 11:27 am

Tags: foreign affairs, war

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