Given his track record, had there been the slightest hope of advance on the political and diplomatic fronts, he would not have given up.
The UN and Arab League chiefs are now looking around to try to find a replacement.
But it’s hard to imagine any figure with anything approaching the stature and profile of Kofi Annan taking on the task, when the prospects for success are currently negligible.
- Syria crisis: Annan’s exit marks end of diplomatic track, BBC News, August 2, 2017.
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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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