He replaced former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as international mediator in August 2012. Annan also failed to obtain a cease-fire.
Meanwhile, Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard, whose country is providing one of the two cargo ships being used to move chemical weapons components out of Syria, urged Damascus to quickly give up the last of its lethal stockpile.
Lidegaard said the ships are not mandated to stay beyond the June 30 deadline.
We have actually now gathered 92 percent of the chemical weapons of Syria. That is not enough, we are still having 8 percent remaining and will do whatever we can to get that on board as well, and then transport it away and destroy it as soon as possible, said Lidegaard.
The Danish cargo ship, and another from Norway, are in the eastern Mediterranean taking deliveries of Syrian toxins. Command frigates are escorting them. They are awaiting word to head for a Syrian port to pick up the last of the chemicals.
Syria agreed to scrap its chemical weapons to avoid a possible military strike from the United States, after an August chemical weapons attak on civilians outside Damascus. More than 1,400 people were killed.
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