UN special envoy admits divisions between regional and world powers have made escalating conflict worse Kofi Annan has admitted that the international community’s efforts to find a political solution to the escalating violence in Syria have failed. In an interview with Le Monde, Annan, the special envoy for the United Nations and the Arab League, said divisions between regional and world powers over how to resolve the conflict, which has claimed the lives of more than 15,000 Syrians, were making the situation worse

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