Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (C) shakes hands with UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the opening of a meeting at the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 30, 2012. World powers began a crisis meeting on Syria aimed at salvaging international envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan to end 16 months of bloodshed and chart a transition plan for the strife-torn country. Photo by Hakan Goktepe/AA/ABACAPRESS.COM