Russia says it understands Brahimi's intention to resign

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Russia understood the United Nations and the Arab League joint envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi's intention to resign, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.

As a "professional and conscientious person," it was hard for Brahimi to continue his mediating jobs between the Syrian government and the opposition as one of the two organizations issuing him the mandate "has stopped all support of the negotiations," Lavrov told reporters.

The Arab League no longer recognizes the Syrian government and now regards the opposition national coalition as the only lawful representative of the people in Syrian, Lavrov added.

The Arab League also made a decision to offer more weapons to the opposition groups.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that Brahimi will continue to engage in his good offices on Syria as the joint envoy of the two international organizations, despite reports of his plan to resign.

Reports said that Brahimi, who is expected to speak at the UN Security Council on Syria later this week, wants to mediate the Syrian crisis only on behalf of the United Nations but to cut any official link to the Arab League, which together with the United Nations appointed Brahimi in September 2012 to replace Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general, in order to bring an early end to the Syrian crisis. Endite

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