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10 Jan 2013

Syria denounces peace envoy who hinted Assad must go

Author: admintech | Filed under: World

International peace envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi attends a meeting with Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby at the Arab League's headquarters in CairoBEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria denounced international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi as "flagrantly biased" on Thursday, casting doubt on how long the U.N.-Arab League mediator can pursue his peace mission. The Syrian Foreign Ministry was responding to remarks by Brahimi a day earlier in which he ruled out a role for President Bashar al-Assad in a transitional government and effectively called for the Baathist leader to quit. "In Syria… …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-envoy-says-assad-cant-syrian-transition-003343879.html