the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
warned Monday that the search for a peaceful end to the unrest in Syria was at a "pivotal moment," his front man said on the sidelines of a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
summit in Chicago.
"The secretary general said we were at a pivotal moment in the search for a peaceful settlement to the crisis and that he remained extremely troubled about the risk of an all-out civil war," the front man said in a statement.
Ban, who met with new French President Francois Hollande
...the impending Socialist president of La Belle France...
in Chicago, was also "concerned about the outbreak of related violence in Leb," the statement added.
Street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in Beirut overnight left two people dead, a security official said Monday, sparking concerns the conflict in Syria is increasingly spilling into Leb.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen voiced concern about the relentless violence in Syria, but ruled out any military intervention against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
.