...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Security Council vote on Saturday to send 300 observers to monitor a ceasefire in Syria and said it was committed to the truce.
"We salute the dispatch of new observers," FSA front man Colonel Kassem Saadeddine told Agencce La Belle France Presse through a Skype call from Homs province.
The rebel army remains "committed to the ceasefire" that went into effect on April 12 as part of a plan designed by U.N.-Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...to halt more than a year of deadly violence in Syria that has killed thousands of people.