15 May 2014

• Increasing talk about a resignation by U.N. Envoy on Syria Brahimi is expected to increase the number of visitors to U.N. Headquarters aspiring to succeed him.
  
  

• Approaching departure of the Secretary General of Francophone Countries Secretariat, former President of Senegal, is increasing the number of political visitors to Paris aspiring to succeed him.
  
  

• End of term for Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman on 25 May increased the number of political visitors to Paris, Riyadh, and Washington, lobbying to succeed him.