UN-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan (R) speaks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting of the Action Group for Syria at the United Nations office, in Geneva, on June 30. World... more 

UN-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan (R) speaks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting of the Action Group for Syria at the United Nations office, in Geneva, on June 30. World powers agreed a plan for a transition in Syria that could include current regime members, but the West did not see any role for President Bashar al-Assad in a new unity government less