UN General Assembly stumped by Syrian turmoil

World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly continued to discuss the unending war in Syria which remains unsolved with no breakthroughs, raising new questions about the relevance of the United Nations.

As diplomats remain vexed and the Security Council paralysed, the new international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said he was working on a new approach with a possible solution after visiting Syria and other region leaders calling for some kind of Arab-led intervention.

President Bashar al-Assad was criticised over seven days of speeches for his regime’s role in the civil war which has left at least 30,000 Syrians reported dead according to activists.

In an attempt to defend itself, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said that extremists were being provoked by a vast global conspiracy in the media intent on bringing his government down.

These extremist were also inventing a refugee crisis according to al-Moallem as UN reports 300,000 Syrians fleeing from their country.

The foreign minister added that Americans, Europeans and fellow Arabs were to blame for the turmoil by calling on Assad to step down.