Brahimi was aiming to return to Damascus for talks with Syrian President.Beirut (AFP/ANTARA News) - Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday on the latest leg of his second regional tour aimed at finding a solution to the Syria conflict, an AFP reporter said.
"We are striving to stop the bloodbath in Syria," Brahimi`s spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told reporters as the UN-Arab League envoy set off for talks with Lebanese leaders.
A government official said Brahimi would meet President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Najib Mikati and parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
The peace envoy was in Cairo on Tuesday as part of a swing that has already taken him to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq.
On Monday he called for a temporary ceasefire in Syria during the four-day Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday starting on October 26 and appealed to Iran, Syria`s staunchest regional ally, to help facilitate such a truce.
Syria says it is prepared to discuss the proposal in talks with Brahimi while the exiled opposition says it would welcome any ceasefire but insists the ball in the government`s court to halt its daily bombardments.
In an interview with AFP earlier this month, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Brahimi was aiming to return to Damascus for talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Syria dominated Lebanon politically and militarily for three decades, and the small Mediterranean country is deeply divided over the conflict in its neighbour.
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