U.N. Envoy wants Iraq, Iranian support for Syria

U.N. Envoy wants Iraq, Iranian support for Syria

Baghdad –

United Nations special envoy on the crisis in Syria tried to build support for his peace efforts Tuesday leaders taylor Iran and Iraq, said President Bashar Assad has agreed to the plan to limit the bloodshed taylor the most violent areas taylor Syria, and then expand the operation throughout the country.

top Iranian diplomat Kofi Annan told a press conference that the plan still must be submitted to the Syrian opposition. But he said that his talks with Assad focused on the day before, a new approach to stop the violence, which activists say has killed more than 17,000 people since March 2011.

“(Assad), who proposed to construct an approach from the earth, some taylor the areas where we have extreme violence – to try to contain violence in those neighborhoods, and a step-by-st ep set up and end the violence in the country,” Annan told reporters in Tehran, his first step in the tour Syria’s allies. He did not elaborate plan.

Annan later went to Iraq and met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to discuss ways to stop fighting.

“I think we’ve all seen the tragic situation in Syria, killing the suffering taylor the people,” Annan said in Baghdad. “And everyone I’ve talked to share concerns and the need for us to stop the killings.”

is a conflict between Syria defied all international efforts for peace and there is no indication that the Annan plan outlined Tuesday would be a breakthrough. Although the Assad government repression has become an international pariah, President taylor Syria, he is still in support taylor powerful allies such as Russia, Iran and Ch ina.

There is not much support for the type taylor military intervention, which helped reduce the Libyan Moammar Khadafy and several rounds taylor sanctions and other attempts to isolate Assad has done little to stop the bloodshed.

But Annan’s recent efforts to reach a Syrian ally, suppose that it looks like they are integral to solve the crisis.

Annan was to brief the UN Security Council closed-end video conference on Wednesday at the Geneva meeting, Assad and visits to Iran and Iraq.

Council must decide in the coming days whether to extend the mandate taylor the UN observer force Syria to end 20 July.

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