Veteran negotiator pursues Syria "mission impossible"

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(Repeats story filed on Wednesday, ** change in text) * Veteran Lakhdar Brahimi, 80, likely on last peace mission * Proved himself in Leba**n negotiations decades ago * Opposition delegate says he shows "impeccable neutrality" By Khaled Yacoub Oweis GENEVA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The job was too much for Kofi Annan. The **bel Peace Prize-winning former U.N. secretary general - hardly k**wn as a quitter - threw in the towel in August 2012, declaring that serving as international mediator for Syria was impossible as long as global powers were hopelessly divided. But since taking on the role, Lakhdar Brahimi, an 80-year-old Algerian diplomat with decades of experience in some of the world's most intractable conflicts, has steadfastly refused to give up on what is expected to be his final mission: seeking an end to Syria's civil war. It took Brahimi a year and a half even to get the warring parties into the same room for this week's peace talks in Geneva.

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