Report: UN-Arab League Envoy on Syria Due in Tehran

The UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, is slated to arrive in Tehran on Saturday on an official visit, media reports said.

Brahimi is due to hold talks with senior Iranian officials on the latest developments in Syria, the Arab-language Al-Hayat newspaper reported.

The UN-Arab League envoy will Leave New York for Tehran later today after attending the UN General Assembly meeting in the US city.

On Wednesday, the “Friends of Syria Conference” was inaugurated in Tehran to discuss the latest developments in crisis-hit Syria and find diplomatic solutions to the ongoing bloodshed in there.

The gathering started work in the presence of heads of parliamentary foreign policy commissions of Iran, Algiers, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Russia to review ways to cease bloodshed and violation of human rights in Syria.

Resolutions of the Syrian crisis through diplomacy and immediate end to violation of human rights were the main topics of the gathering.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.

Tens of hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.

The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.

Tel Aviv, Washington, Ankara and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots to topple President Bashar al-Assad, who is well known in the world for his anti-Israeli stances.

FARS News Agency