Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi was appointed the new UN-Arab
League envoy for Syria on 17 August 2012. He will succeed Kofi Annan,
who resigned earlier this month after his six-point peace plan failed to
achieve a meaningful cease-fire. Lakhdar Brahimi will be known as the
Joint Special Representative for Syria.
The 78-year-old Algerian diplomat has served as a U.N. special envoy
in Iraq after the U.S. invasion; in Afghanistan, before and after the
end of Taliban rule; and in South Africa after the apartheid era. He
also brokered an end to the Lebanese civil war as a senior Arab League
official between 1984-91. He went on to serve as Algerian foreign
minister between 1991-93.
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