Kofi Annan resigned as United Nations and Arab League envoy to Syria, declaring that the increasing militarisation of the conflict and the lack of Security Council unity no longer made his role effective.
His resignation on Thursday underlines the growing irrelevance of international peace effortsin the face of a spiralling 17-month conflict that has now gripped the country’s major cities.
“As an envoy, I can’t want peace more than the protagonists, more than the Security Council or the international community for that matter,” Mr Annan told reporters. “At a time when we need – when the Syrian people desperately need - action, there continues to be finger-pointing and name-calling in the Security Council.”
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