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UN envoy Brahimi arrives in Damascus

Dec 23 2012
Syria
Source: 
al-Yazeera

International peace envoy tasked with ending Syria’s conflict has arrived in Syria and is set to meet with President Bashar al-Assad.

Lakhdar Brahimi is hoping to "achieve a breakthrough", to broker a solution that would lead to a consensus transitional government with full authority, diplomatic sources told Al Jazeera on Sunday.

Brahimi's trip is his third to Damascus since taking his post in August.

La Coalition nationale reconnue en tant que représentant légitime du peuple syrien

Dec 14 2012
Morocco
Syria
Source: 
L´opinion

Les participants à la 4ème conférence ministérielle du Groupe des amis du peuple syrien ont reconnu, mercredi à Marrakech, la Coalition nationale de l’opposition syrienne en tant que représentant légitime du peuple syrien et l’organisation qui chapeaute les groupes d’opposition, lit-on dans les conclusions de la Présidence de cette conférence.

Syria opposition wins international backing

Dec 12 2012
Syria
Source: 
al-Yazeera

More than 100 countries have recognised a new Syrian opposition coalition, opening the way for greater assistance to the forces fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad, including possibly military aid.

Backing for the Syrian National Coalition, formed in Qatar in November, was given at an international conference of the "Friends of the Syrian People" in Morocco on Wednesday.

The opposition had been under intense international pressure to create a more organised and representative body to channel any aid extended by foreign countries.

Syria death toll hits 33,082 – Security Council inaction encouraging Assad

Oct 13 2012
Syria
Source: 
Kuwait Times

Violence in Syria has killed at least 33,082 people, most of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said yesterday. Some 1,000 people have been killed in the past five days alone, the Britain-based watchdog said.  “This is all-out war-there is no other way to describe the violence in Syria,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said. At least 23,630 civilians have been killed, along with 8,211 soldiers and 1,241 army defectors who joined the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad.

Brahimi meets Assad in Damascus

Sep 15 2012
Syria
Source: 
AL JAZEERA

UN-Arab League envoy has first meeting with Syrian president since accepting envoy's role amid reports of new killings.
Syrian state television says UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has met President Bashar al-Assad to discuss efforts to end the country's 18-month-old conflict that activists say has killed more than 27,000 people.
Saturday's meeting was Brahimi's first with Assad since he replaced Kofi Annan as peace envoy two weeks ago, taking on a mission which the veteran Algerian diplomat described as "nearly impossible".

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