World to blame for Syria deaths: Annan

Kofi Annan warned world powers on Saturday that they would be partly responsible for more Syrian deaths if they fail to agree on how to end the violence there. “Their deaths will be the consequence of not only the acts of killers on the ground but also your inability to bridge the divisions between you,” he told foreign ministers while opening the crisis meeting in Geneva. “History is a sombre judge — and it will judge us all harshly if we prove incapable of taking the right path today,” he said. The foreign ministers of the five permanent UNSC states, the US, Russia, Britain, China and France, as well as Qatar, Turkey, Kuwait and Iraq, began talks amid deep divisions over how power transition could be organised in Syria.