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#UN's #syria envoy Lakhdar #Brahimi to step down this month
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International Syria mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will step down from the role on May 31, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday. For more than a year, Brahimi has made no secret that he is contemplating stepping down from the post as the United Nations and Arab League joint special representative on Syria. Brahimi is due to brief the UN Security Council later on Tuesday. (Reuters)

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#ESCWA’s proposal for Arab integration undermined by #Israel
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Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (L), Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (C) and Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi (R) attend the 25th Arab League summit at Bayan palace in Kuwait City on March 25, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Yasser al-Zayyat) Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (L), Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (C) and Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi (R) attend the 25th Arab League summit at Bayan palace in Kuwait City on March 25, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Yasser al-Zayyat)

Over the course of the week, the #UN's Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia’s (ESCWA) report, titled “Arab Integration: A 21st Century Imperative,” has been overshadowed (...)

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#UN's #syria envoy asks to resign
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The Damascus representative of UN-Arab League Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has asked to quit his post, a UN spokesman said Monday. #Mokhtar_Lamani, who heads Brahimi’s Damascus office, “has submitted a request to the United Nations to be relieved of his duties, but he has not officially resigned,” UN spokesman Khaled al-Masri told AFP. The spokesman did not provide an explanation for Lamani’s decision. He was appointed to represent Brahimi in Damascus in September 2012. read more

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#UN's Brahimi meets with Assad in bid to salvage Geneva II talks
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Syrian deputy foreign minister Faisal Meqdad, left, and UN-Arab League envoy to #syria Lakhdar Brahimi arrive at the Sheraton hotel on October 30, 2013 in Damascus. (Photo: AFP - Louai Beshara)

UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was meeting President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus Wednesday, the third day of a visit aimed at bringing Syria’s warring parties to the negotiating table. More than 115,000 people have been killed in the 31-month armed uprising (...)

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