...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...will leave for Damascus
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
on Monday, the former U.N. secretary general's front man said.
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 Annan said Friday the team would discuss setting up an international monitoring mission for Syria.
"I hope they will have all the access that is necessary," he added at a presser in Geneva after a video briefing of the U.N. Security Council.
He told a closed meeting of the council that he was sending the team even though he has had a "disappointing response" so far to his proposals to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
He said his "six-point proposals" to Assad remain on the table and that he had "no illusions" over the scale of his mission to try to end the year-old military assault on protest cities that the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
says has left more than 8,000 dead.
Annan also said he feared that the fallout from the Syria crisis could affect the whole of the Middle East.
"The talking continues," he said in Geneva, urging caution because the whole region is concerned.