Political Comment (23 April 2012) 

As the UN prepares to deploy monitors in Syria, the ceasefire brokered by UN/Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has worked only intermittently at best. Nonetheless Mr Annan's six-point peace plan remains the only game in town. In Egypt the election commission has disqualified 10 of the 23 candidates in the presidential election, including the nominee of the Muslim Brotherhood. Iran's first meeting in over a year with international nuclear...