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Lakhdar Brahimi

Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr (R) meets with UN-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi in Cairo on May 19, 2013. An Arab League committee on Syria will hold an emergency meeting on May 23, ahead of an international peace conference on ending the country's civil war, the bloc's deputy leader said.

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About Lakhdar Brahimi

Lakhdar Brahimi (Arabic: الأخضر الإبراهيمي) (born January 1, 1934 in Algeria) was a veteran United Nations envoy and advisor. He retired from his duties at the end of 2005. Brahimi is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specificially on the link between exclusion, poverty and law.

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