The international envoy charged with bringing peace to Syria is warning world powers they could soon have more blood on their hands. Former United Nations
...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
Secretary-General 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...
spoke to Security Council members in Geneva Saturday as activists said that Syrian government troops had retaken control of a suburb of Damascus
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, leaving dozens dead.
Annan lamented that his six-point cease-fire plan had not been implemented and said the time has come for the international community to do more. If not, he said the mounting corpse count "will be the consequence of not only the acts of killers on the ground but also your inability to bridge the divisions between you."
The talks, including representatives from the United States, Russia, China, Britannia, La Belle France and envoys from Arab countries, are aimed at salvaging Annan's peace plan and finding a political solution to the crisis.
Before the meeting, British Foreign Secretary William Hague was cautiously hopeful.
"And so there is the opportunity for the international community to be much stronger and to act much more robustly but we can only do that with the agreement of the Russians and the Chinese," said Hague.
Russia, a long-time ally of Syria, has said any solution to the crisis must be decided by the Syrians themselves and has spurned calls for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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to step down. China has taken a similar stance.