UN-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan discussed his recent talks in the U.S. on the ongoing Syria crisis with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu over the phone on Monday, June 11.
As Today’s Zaman reports, according to sources from the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Annan briefed Davutoğlu on his Washington talks as well as a recent Russian proposal to hold an international conference on Syria that would also be attended by Iran. Last week Russia called for an international conference to galvanize international commitment to the Annan plan.
Annan met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last Friday to discuss how to salvage his faltering plan to end more than a year of deadly violence in Syria. Also last week, Annan briefed the UN on developments in Syria and warned that “if things do not change, the future is likely to be one of brutal repression, massacres, sectarian violence and even all-out civil war. All Syrians will lose.”
