In this Sunday Nov. 4, 2012 photo, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, Arab League Secretary General Nabil Alaraby, center, and Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, right, hold a late-night joint press conference, but they differed in their assessments, after talks in Cairo, Egypt. Brahimi called the situation “deplorable,” adding, “The solution will either be a political one that all sides agree on, or the future of Syria is very bad.” while Lavrov blamed the Syrian opposition for not accepting a cease-fire proposal that left the door open for a transitional period with Assad still in power. <El Shorouk Newspaper/Ahmed Abd El Latef>
