...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
said on Wednesday it will stop cooperating with international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi unless he severs his ties with the 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...
, which it accused of involvement in a conspiracy against Syria.
"Syria has cooperated and will cooperate with Brahimi only as U.N. envoy, because the vaporous Arab League is complicit in the conspiracy against Syria," the foreign ministry said in a statement carried by state media.
It lashed out at the U.N.-Arab League envoy and said there was "a lack of neutrality" in his work.
Brahimi was named to the joint post in August to replace former U.N. chief 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..., who stepped down after failing to get the two sides to implement a peace plan he had proposed.
Last month, the Arab League granted the Syrian seat to the main opposition National Coalition, in a move that sparked rage from Damascus.
"Brahimi's report (on April 19) to the U.N. Security Council was marked by (a tone of) interference in Syria's internal affairs and a lack of the neutrality required by his mission as international mediator," the statement said.
Brahimi told the council that Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
is "not in the mood for dialogue."
The veteran Algerian diplomat also urged the council last Friday to impose an arms embargo on all sides of the Syrian conflict, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday.