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17Apr13

Brahimi to remain as UN-Arab League envoy for Syria: UN chief

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday said that Lakhdar Brahimi, the joint special representative of the UN and Arab League for Syria, will continue to engage in his good offices on Syria as the joint envoy of the two international organizations, despite reports of his plan to resign.

While addressing a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York, Ban said that he was scheduled to meet Brahimi, the former Algerian foreign minister and a veteran UN staff, Wednesday afternoon.

"Lakhdar Brahimi has been and will continue to work as joint special representative," Ban said.

Reports said that Brahimi, who is expected to speak at the UN Security Council on Syria later this week, wants to mediate the Syrian crisis only on behalf of the United Nations but to cut any official link to the Arab League, which together with the United Nations appointed Brahimi in September 2012 to replace Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general, in order to bring an early end to the Syrian crisis.

"You might have heard a lot of speculation and rumors. That's what I also heard," Ban said. "The important thing is that I am going to have a meeting, a bilateral meeting, with Dr. Lakhdar Brahimi this afternoon."

"And I will have another meeting with the secretary general of the League of Arab States early next week in New York, so we will have the opportunity of meeting all together," Ban said, referring to his meeting with Nabil El-Arabi, the chief of the Arab League.

Ban stressed that "it is very important that the United Nations works together with the League of Arab States."

[Source: Xinhua, United Nations, 17Apr13]
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