SYRIA: Joint United Nation-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi heads to meeting with President Bashar al-Assad

Record ID: 281361

  • Title: SYRIA: Joint United Nation-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi heads to meeting with President Bashar al-Assad
  • Date: 15th September 2012
  • Summary: DAMASCUS, SYRIA (SEPTEMBER 15, 2012) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF HOTEL BEING USED BY INTERNATIONAL PEACE ENVOY LAKHDAR BRAHIMI SYRIAN FLAGS HANGING OUTSIDE HOTEL SYRIAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER, FAISAL MIQDAD, ARRIVING AT THE HOTEL MIQDAD WITH HEAD OF THE OFFICE OF THE JOINT SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SYRIA IN DAMASCUS, MOKHTAR LAMANI CLOSE OF LAMANI VARIOUS OF LAMANI WITH MIQDAD
  • Embargoed: 30th September 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Syrian Arab Republic
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVA8H4LD8EK0YC8MJEZ2TGI7YCLQ
  • Story Text: United Nations-Arab League Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Saturday (September 15) departed his hotel to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
    Brahimi was accompanied with Mokhtar Lamani, Head of the Office of the Joint Special Representative for Syria in Damascus.
    Lamani, Canadian-Moroccan, was Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Representative to the United Nations in New York from January 1998 to December 2002 and as
    the Representative & Special Envoy of the League of Arab States (LAS) to Iraq in 2006-2007.
    It will be Brahimi's first meeting with Assad since he replaced Kofi Annan as peace envoy two weeks ago.
    Assad's forces and rebels seeking his overthrow have ignored appeals to end the fighting.
    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said 160 people were killed in Syria on Friday (September 14).
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