RUSSIA: U.N. and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrives for Moscow talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Record ID: 861822

  • Title: RUSSIA: U.N. and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrives for Moscow talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
  • Date: 29th December 2012
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (DECEMBER 29, 2012) (REUTERS) CARS DRIVING INTO RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY MANSION GATES MANSION WINDOWS CAR WITH RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV DRIVING TO ENTRANCE DOOR, LAVROV EXITING CAR AND ENTERING BUILDING LAVROV ENTERING BUILDING LOBBY CARS DRIVING INTO RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY MANSION GATES MANSION WINDOWS CAR WITH U.N. AND ARAB LEAGUE ENVOY LAKHDAR BRAHIMI DRIVING TO ENTRANCE DOOR, BRAHIMI EXITING CAR AND ENTERING BUILDING BRAHIMI ENTERING BUILDING, GREETING LAVROV CAMERA CREWS FILMING LAVROV AND BRAHIMI WALKING IN MANSION LOBBY, SHAKING HANDS, LEAVING FOR TALKS EXTERIOR OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY MANSION
  • Embargoed: 13th January 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Russian Federation
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  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVA836FDOE43QNB482I7GZBZOK03
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  • Story Text: U.N. and Arab League Syria peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived on Saturday (December 29) at the Russian Foreign Ministry mansion in Moscow for talks with Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.
    The meeting follows the talks that Syrian officials held in Moscow on Thursday (December 27) as part of a diplomatic drive to try to agree a plan to end the 21-month-old conflict, Russia's foreign ministry said.
    Talks have moved to Moscow, a long-time Syria ally, after a flurry of meetings Brahimi held in Damascus this week, but the international envoy has disclosed little about his negotiations.
    Brahimi, who saw Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday (December 24) and was planning to hold a series of meetings with Syrian officials and dissidents this week, is trying to broker a peaceful transfer of power.
    More than 44,000 Syrians have been killed in a revolt against four decades of Assad family rule, a conflict that began with peaceful protests in March last year, but which has descended into civil war.
    Past peace efforts have floundered, with world powers divided over what has become an increasingly sectarian struggle between mostly Sunni Muslim rebels and Assad's security forces, drawn primarily from his Shi'ite-rooted Alawite minority.
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