Ibrahimi Hopes Mission Will Succeed: Syria Conflict Getting Worse

Peace envoy Al-Akhdar Al-Ibrahimi said on Thursday the deadly conflict in Syria was getting worse as he arrived on his first official trip.

"We came to Syria to hold meetings with our Syrian brothers because there is a big crisis, and I think it is getting worse," the official SANA news agency quoted the UN-Arab League envoy as saying at Damascus airport. "I think everybody agrees the need to stop the bloodshed and to restore harmony, and we hope that we will succeed," said Ibrahimi, who succeeded former envoy Kofi Annan who quit after his six-point peace plan for Syria foundered.

"During his visit to Syria, Mr Ibrahimi will hold talks with the government and with representatives of the Syrian opposition and civil society," said a statement from his spokesman Ahmad Fawzi, who also said that the veteran Algerian diplomat would be meeting President Bashar al-Assad.

Ibrahimi was to meet Foreign Minister Walid Muallem later on Thursday, an official Syrian source said.

He will meet on Friday with members of opposition groups tolerated by the Syrian regime.
Ibrahimi was accompanied by Mokhtar Lamani, who will remain in Damascus to assume his new functions as head of office for the Joint Special Representative for Syria in the city, Fawzi said.

Syrian deputy foreign minister Fayssal Al-Miqdad said: "We trust that Ibrahimi has a general understanding of the developments and of the way to solve problems despite the complexities. We are optimistic and we wish Ibrahimi success."


Source: AFP	13-09-2012 - 21:00 Last updated 13-09-2012 - 21:03 \| 1416 View

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1 - Those 7 centery backward Criminals
alan \| USA	04:24	2012-09-14
Syria at the Mercy of the West\\’s \"Ministers of Terrorism\".Foreign Policy by Terrorists and Thugs in High Office.Murder, sabotage, bribery, contract killings -- and that’s just the behavior of Western political leaders and their Arab allies. Forget the fancy titles, manners and clothes -- ongoing violence in Syria shows that the foreign policy of these powers is being conducted by terrorists and thugs in high offices. Which let’s one glimpse what level of barbarity is being perpetrated by the Western terror army, running amok in the streets and villages of Syria.

2 - anti-warship.
frank chau \| Philippines	11:42	2012-09-14
its better to sink enemies warships, so it will be very costly and more casualties to the enemies, or else, their warships will just run and repair and attacks again someday, coz.each warship of enemies costs $200 million to $10 billion (aircraft carrier ship). coz.the west warships are almost unsinkable coz.of their multi-hull and many divisions divider (like submairines), its better to fire many anti-ship missiles against each enemy warship, so it will sustain many explosions and hole that will ultimately sink and drown hundreds or even thousands of sailors and crews. just watch the movie \\’battleship\\’ of liam neeson (actor), and see how aliens destroy u.s. warships.

3 - winning or losing the war. cheap or bigtime.
frank chau \| Philippines	11:54	2012-09-14
if israel or west attacks hezbollah, hezbollah threaths of killings tens of thousands of jews in israel are very cheap, imagine if hezbollah is destroyed, israel has more than 6 million jews, killing tens of thousands are too little too late, millionss of jews in israel must be killed by using chemical weapons armed rockets and ballistic-missles and fire all of them at the same time to overwhelm israel\\’s advance air defenses, or else, its all a muslims childs play that attain again too little victory, while hezbollah hamas will be completely destroyed. hezbollah must never let hamas be pre-emptively destroyed by israel, or else, no more southern front against israel.

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