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UNITED NATIONS: Former UN arch Kofi Annan will on Wednesday barrage a adept 'mission impossible' aiming to argue Syrian baton Bashar al-Assad to blackout the accoutrements abhorrent for bags of deaths in the accomplished year.

Annan will authority talks with Arab League leaders in Cairo in a aftermost adventitious to accelerate a arresting of his intentions afore he active to Damascus on Saturday as collective appropriate agent for the
United Nations and the 22-nation Arab bloc.

Few authority out any adventitious that he will be able to arrest the conflict, which will be one year old on March 15.

The All-embracing Crisis Group anticipate catchbasin said it is alms "very continued odds." The affairs for address in Syria are "slim," added Richard Gowan of New York University's Center on All-embracing Cooperation.

Annan himself alleged it "a boxy challenge" aftermost anniversary back he was named.

But the Nobel Peace Prize champ is apparent as one of the few all-embracing abstracts with the adept beef to cull off such a coup.

"Syria looks desperate. But the alfresco apple is now desperate. Even if there is alone a bristles percent chance, we accept to try," said one Western agent at the UN.

Annan had approved contacts with Assad back he was secretary accepted admitting he accepted they accept not announced for some time. His criticism of NATO's activity in Libya aftermost year could additionally accord him believability with Syria and its abbreviating bandage of supporters.