Insurgents say Brahimi mission will fail

Abdul Jabbar al-Oqeidi, the leader of the Aleppo military council of the self-proclaimed Free Syrian Army (FSA), made the remarks on Sunday, a day after Brahimi met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus as part of a new diplomatic campaign to resolve the Syrian crisis.

“We are sure Brahimi will fail like the other envoys before him, but we do not want to be the reason of his failure,” Oqeidi told AFP by telephone.

“We discussed the general situation in Syria,” said Oqeidi, who talked to Brahimi along with the FSA spokesman in Syria, Colonel Qassem Saadeddine, and the group’s chief in Damascus, Colonel Khaled Hobous.

Syria’s armed groups were blamed for the failure of former UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan’s peace-making mission in the country.

Brahimi replaced Kofi Annan, whose six-point peace plan for Syria was launched in February 2012 and meant to enforce a cease-fire across the country.

But the plan practically failed and the former UN chief eventually resigned on August 2, 2012.

Syria has been the scene of deadly unrest since mid-March, 2011, and many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.

Damascus blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorists for the unrest while the opposition accuses the security forces of being behind the violence.

The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside and accuses certain Western and regional countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, of arming and funding insurgents operating in the country.

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