Kofi Annan Resigns As UN’s Syria Envoy
By VOR
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has announced the resignation of the organization’s Syria envoy Kofi Annan, Reuters reports.
Kofi Annan has been a UN and Arab League’s envoy to Syria since the end of February. He was also Ban Ki-moon’s predecessor in the high UN office.
Despite Annan’s resignation, the crisis in Syria will stay high atop the international agenda.
Kofi Annan blamed “finger pointing and name calling” within the U.N. Security Council among the reasons for his decision on Thursday to quit as the U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria.
The world is full of crazy people like me. So don’t be surprised if Secretary General Ban Ki-moon can find someone who can do a better job than me,” Annan said when asked if he thought someone else would be named to succeed him.
“There may be other plans, other approaches that may work quite effectively,” he said, adding that at this stage the focus should still be on a political transition which means “President (Bashar) al-Assad will have to leave sooner or later”.
