Brahimi: Syria 'needs political solution'
The UN-Arab League envoy on Syria has said that a peace conference he hoped to hold this month has been delayed, but that he is still "striving" for a summit by the end of the year.
Lakhdar Brahimi said, after a day of meetings with senior diplomats, that he was not able to announce a date for talks in Geneva.
He also described the situation in Syria as "extremely bad" and suggested that the solution to the country's humanitarian crisis must be political, not military.
05 Nov 2013
- From the section Middle East