...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...'s peace plan
Syria has freed 265 detainees involved in the popular uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
, "but who do not have blood on their hands," the state news agency SANA reported on Saturday.
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Releasing detainees is a requisite of the six-point peace plan brokered by UN-Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
envoy
Kofi Annan last month, as is the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on April 12.
Last month, the Syrian Ministry of the Interior called on armed Syrians who were not directly involved in the bloodshed to turn themselves in and turn over their weapons to the police. They were promised to be released and that they would face no further legal actions.
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At least 4,000 prisoners have been freed since November, according to SANA. These prisoners also did not have "blood on their hands."