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Kofi Annan appointed UN-Arab League envoy to Syria
Published: 24 February, 2012, 04:43
Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (Reuters / Leif R. Jansson / Scanpix)
TAGS: Conflict, UN, Politics, Human rights, Syria
The United Nations and the Arab League have appointed former UN chief Kofi Annan as their joint special envoy to deal with the Syrian crisis. This follows a report by a UN-appointed panel on the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the country.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Arab League Secretary-General Nabil El-Araby announced the appointment on Thursday evening. They said that Annan would serve as their high-level representative in the crisis and would be supported by a deputy from the Arab world.
“The special envoy will provide good offices aimed at bringing an end to all violence and human rights violations and promoting a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis,” the statement said as quoted by the UN News Center.
“He will consult broadly and engage with all relevant interlocutors within and outside Syria in order to end the violence and the humanitarian crisis and facilitate a peaceful Syrian-led and inclusive political solution that meets the democratic aspirations of the Syrian people through a comprehensive political dialogue between the Syrian government and the whole spectrum of the Syrian opposition,” it continued.
The appointment comes shortly after a report by a UN-appointed rights panel on Syria said that the humanitarian situation in the strife-torn country had deteriorated “significantly” and warned that the crisis had become “increasingly violent and militarized.”
“Since November 2011, the escalation of violence owing to the intensification of armed operations has led to an even more dire human rights situation and increased human suffering,” the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria said on Thursday.
In November the panel said that Syria’s military and security forces had committed crimes against humanity during the crackdown on the anti-Assad protest and called for an immediate end to the violence.
On Wednesday Ban Ki-moon asked Valerie Amos, under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs to visit Syria to assess the situation there and to renew the call for urgent aid.
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Unless Mr.Annan has financial problems,it would be a big mistake to involve himself in the Arab mess. As a fact, Arabs have no respect for black people,including the Muslim ones.The late Gaddafi was hated by almost all Arabs simply because of his association with black Africans
If Mr.Annan wants to save his already soiled reputation, he should avoid playing the role of reconciling the mad Arabs.
But since most Africans love money more than they love themselves and also they like to appease their former colonial masters,it is most likely that Annan will blindly allow himself to be used.
To Tom Sad, I agree with in the first part of your writing but disagreed with you when you said most African love money. Look the list of freedom fighters in Africa. The west has no blood without Africa resources. Look a country like France has no future without its colonies. They killed Lumunba, They killed, Sankara, They kept behind barre Mandela for three decades. They are keeping behind barre another African leader because the did not want to see them taking over the resources. I am talking about Laurent Gbagbo from Ivory Coast. My Friend Tom Sad, the Africans have been fighting the whit looters since slave time. Step by step we are winning the battle. Thanks God we are moving slowly by surely toward the freedom of that continent. In 10 years they will no longer going to be able to destroy any country around the globe. They are no longer the only almighty force that can destroy anyone. Most africans countries are trying to establish relation with China, Russia, Brazil, India. I said in 10 more years things will be different.