at least 40 dead in hospital bombing  (17 Posts) Aboutlastnight
Mon 03-Dec-12 12:40:47  No one remember this? Kofi Annan's
resignation? May have been in a couple of newspapers?
"International disarray over the bloody crisis in Syria has been
starkly underlined when the UN envoy Kofi Annan announced that
he was resigning because of the failure of what he said had
become a "mission impossible".  The former UN secretary general
said it had been a "sacred duty" to take up the position five
months ago to try to find a solution to the conflict. But
growing militarisation and a lack of unity among world powers
had changed the circumstances.  "At a time when we need – when
the Syrian people desperately need action – there continues to
be finger-pointing and name-calling in the security council,"
Annan said on Thursday in a sometimes bitter and frustrated
statement he made at the UN's Geneva headquarters.  Annan's six-
point plan for peace in Syria was already moribund but his
dramatic resignation will serve as its de