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UN Syria envoy arrives in Saudi Arabia

11 October 2012 03:30 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Lakhdar Brahimi, the joint special representative (JSR) of the United Nations and Arab League for Syria, on Wednesday arrived in Saudi Arabia, where he is expected to meet Saudi officials on the Syrian crisis, which broke out in March 2011, said a statement from Brahimi’s spokesman here, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

"The joint special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the first stop of his second regional tour as JSR for Syria," the statement said.

"In Jeddah, Mr. Brahimi will hold wide-ranging talks on the prolonged crisis in Syria," the statement added.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Paris on Tuesday that Brahimi will visit Syria soon in a bid to mediate a cease-fire between the Syrian government and armed rebels in the 19-month conflict in the Middle East country.

Brahimi, the former Algerian foreign minister, kicked off his Middle East tour as fighting rages in Syria’s biggest city Aleppo and government forces pursue offensives to dislodge rebels from provincial bastions elsewhere.

Brahimi was appointed by the United Nations and Arab League to replace Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general who stepped down in August after his failure to bring peace into Syria, in a continuous international effort to seek a political solution to the Syrian crisis.