AP reports: "Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan on Thursday was appointed the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy on the Syrian crisis"
Via Francis Boyle -- from Richard Holbrooke's, To End a War (1998) p. 130:
Operation Deliberate Force came after a magnificent effort ... Annan’s gutsy performance in those twenty-four hours was to play a central role in Washington’s strong support for him a year later as the successor to Boutros Boutros-Ghali as Secretary-General of the United Nations. Indeed, in a sense Annan won the job on that day.