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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Syrian men stand in a building damaged by tank shells in a Damascus suburbs. U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has told the Syrian government and opposition that the yearlong conflict must end at 6 a.m. local time on April 12 if the government meets...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
The UN Security Council has urged Syria to implement "urgently and visibly" a peace plan requiring a 10 April deadline for ending a military offensive against the opposition. Envoy Kofi Annan's plan calls for Damascus to pull back troops and heavy...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The Syrian government said Thursday it withdrew troops from some communities as part of a peace plan pushed by special envoy Kofi Annan , his spokesman said. The government statement could not be confirmed, CNN reported, and the United Nations was...
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Arizona Daily Sun
| 1 year ago
Thursday, April 5, 2012 7:20 am (0) Comments Font Size: The U.N. Security Council is calling on Syria "to urgently and visibly" fulfill its pledge to halt the use of troops and heavy weapons in cities and towns by the April 10 deadline.
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The UN Security Council on Thursday called on Syria to "urgently" move to keep an April 10 deadline to withdraw troops and weapons from protest cities. The 15-nation council, including Russia and China, agreed a statement putting new pressure on...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
A spokesman for Kofi Annan says Syria told the U.N.-Arab League envoy that it has begun withdrawing troops from three areas as part of a cease-fire plan it agreed to implement by April 10. The plan calls for all other parties to halt violence within...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan expects the Syrian government and the opposition to fully implement a truce by April 12, his spokesman said on Thursday, as fighting raged near the capital Damascus. France however said that it is not confident Syrian...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
The United Nations expects a cease-fire between Syrian troops and opposition forces to be in place no later than April 12, a spokesman for the U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said Thursday, as activists reported a fierce attack by government troops...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
U.N. envoys were to arrive in Syria Thursday to work out monitoring as the Security Council readied a statement demanding on-time compliance for a cease-fire...Truce Supervision Organization for Middle East peacekeeping from 2009 to 2011 -- was to...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accepted the plan, which calls for him to withdraw heavy weapons from cities, and his ally Russia said Syrian forces had begun to pull back. But opposition activists on Wednesday reported no let-up in Assad's...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The United States on Wednesday voiced doubts that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would comply with a peace plan deadline, criticizing an "intensification" of violence against opponents. Syrian activists said government forces pressed a crackdown on...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Syrian opposition activists accused forces loyal to President Bashar Assad of bombarding rebel areas on Wednesday as a UN mission was expected to arrive in Damascus in a first step to implement an international peace plan. Activists said at least 80...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
President Bashar al-Assad's acceptance of a plan that puts the onus on rebels as well as the Syrian army to end more than a year of bloodshed may buy him time and, at least temporarily, reduce world pressure against him. Syria has pledged to withdraw...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Activists said Wednesday tanks were storming and shelling several towns and villages. They said the operations were ongoing "from the Turkish border in the northeast to Daraa in the south." Several neighborhoods in the central city of Homs, a bastion...
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B92
| 1 year ago
The U.S. said Tuesday that the UN Security Council must respond urgently if Syria fails to keep its pledge to halt offensive military operations by April 10...Ambassador Susan Rice said that Syrian forces had been continuing offensive operations, and...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Assad forces kill at least 70 in Syria over past 24 hours, despite imminent arrival of UN team. At least 70 people were killed in intense fighting in Syria over the past 24 hours, activists said on Wednesday, despite the imminent arrival of a UN team...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Loud explosions reverberated across the central Syrian city of Homs and clashes were reported in several areas across the country Wednesday, just hours after the government said it has started to withdraw troops from some cities in compliance with an...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
For millions of Syrians the outcome of the second Friends of Syria conference, which was held in Istanbul on Monday, was a big letdown. More than 80 countries and organizations attended the meeting, underlying growing international sympathy and...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The Syrian government began withdrawing troops from some cities on Tuesday, the first sign after more than a year of violence that President Bashar al-Assad is taking a peace plan seriously. Assad earlier agreed to a cease-fire proposal drafted by...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The UN Security Council will have to take "very urgent and serious" action if Syria fails to meet an April 10 deadline to halt its military operations in protest cities, US ambassador Susan Rice said Tuesday. UN Security Council members negotiated a...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
Breaking News Washington's UN envoy Susan Rice accused the Syrian regime of exacerbating violence against citizens, saying that the President Bashar Assad's government has failed to implement UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan, despite its...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
After agreeing to abide by a plan drawn up by Kofi Annan, the United Nations and Arab League envoy, Syria has pledged to pull out its forces battling armed rebels by April 10 a move that, if implemented, could lead to reconciliation and political...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The United States said Tuesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was failing to live up to pledges for a truce and warned that it will judge him by "his actions, not by his words." Fierce clashes were reported again Tuesday in Syria despite Assad'...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Rebel fighters also kept up their attacks, killing three soldiers in separate actions in northern Syria, activists said. Assad has agreed to a ceasefire negotiated by international peace envoy Kofi Annan from April 10, the latest effort to end a year...
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Boston.com
| 1 year ago
A volunteer doctor treats a wounded protester, who was shot during a funeral for Syrians killed by the Syrian Army two weeks ago, in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 2, 2012. Syrian government troops clashed with rebel forces across...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
U.S., British and French envoys said they would seek Tuesday to hold Syria's Assad regime to its pledge to remove troops from population centers within a week...Security Council statement, to be circulated among the council's 15 members, warning of...
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AKI
| 1 year ago
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's pledge to initiate a cease-fire in a week was met with suspicion by Western powers that said he may be buying time to unleash more assaults on dissidents. UN special envoy Kofi Annan, briefing the Security Council...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The United States, Britain and France are working on a UN Security Council statement putting a formal stamp on an April 10 deadline for Syria to withdraw troops and guns from protest cities, diplomats said Monday. The statement would again warn...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Syria's government has promised that its armed forces would withdraw from population centres by April 10 and stop shooting within 48 hours after that date if rebels also stop, the special emissary attempting to end the violent year-old uprising in...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
The six-point peace plan calls for a ceasefire, with the withdrawal of soldiers and heavy weapons from cities and the delivery of humanitarian aid. Mr Annan told the Security Council in a behind doors meeting overnight that Syria has accepted the...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Thousands of Syrians have died and President Bashar al-Assad remains in power, despite numerous calls by the international community for him to step down. Gallery We have seen over the course of the last months promises made and promise broken, said...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Egypt's foreign minister warned on Monday that arming Syria's opposition could lead to a full civil war and argued instead to give an Arab League peace plan a chance to succeed. Qatar and Saudi Arabia have advocated arming rebels seeking to oust...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles The United Nations Special Envoy, Kofi Annan, told the Security Council that Assad had agreed to withdraw forces from population centers and to stop using heavy weapons early next week, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, who holds the council's...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Associated Press Free Syrian Army fighters moved through a Damascus neighborhood on Sunday. Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse Getty Images Turkish riot police officers sprayed tear gas at supporters of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria as they...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 1 year ago
Tuesday Apr 3, 2012 UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed on a deadline to start implementing a peace plan, as the Red Cross chief began a new humanitarian mission there. Annan has appealed to the 15-...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Syria has agreed to "immediately" start pulling troops out of protest cities, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said Monday but Western nations quickly expressed doubts that the new promises would be kept. Annan said President Bashar al-Assad's foreign...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Security Council on Monday that Syria informed him its military will complete the withdrawal of troops and heavy weapons from populated areas by April 10...Ambassador Susan Rice said Annan received a letter from Syria's foreign minister on Sunday...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Eyder Peralta Bashar Ja'afari, Syria's Ambassador to the United Nations, points to reporters asking questions as he speaks to the media outside Security Council chambers on Monday. Bashar Ja'afari, Syria's Ambassador to the United Nations, points to...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 1 year ago
International envoy Kofi Annan says Syria informed him its military will complete withdrawal of troops and heavy weapons from populated areas by April 10...Ambassador Susan Rice said Annan told a closed Security Council briefing Monday that he...
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
Syria has agreed to a 10 April deadline to begin implementing a six-point peace plan, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has said, as cited by BBC. The plan calls for a UN-supervised ceasefire by all parties, withdrawal of soldiers and heavy weapons...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
55 Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to start implementing a peace plan by April 10, but UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan told the UN Security Council there has been no progress yet in halting the bloodshed. Annan appealed to the 15-member...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has asked the UN Security Council for support in implementing an April 10 deadline for Syria to partially implement his peace plan, with a full ceasefire within 48 hours thereafter, envoys said on Monday.
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The Age
| 1 year ago
The partial implementation of his plan would include a full cessation of hostilities within 48 hours of the deadline, diplomats at a closed briefing by Mr Annan yesterday said. Mr Annan appealed to the 15-member council to support the deadline, the...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
This is high noon for action, the leader of the Syrian National Council Burhan Ghalioun told world leaders at a gathering in Turkey over the weekend. Over 70 countries belonging to the Friends of Syria Group, which includes Canada, met in Istanbul at...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
An explosion ripped through central Damascus today morning, injuring several people and damaging shops near a police station, Syrian television and witnesses said. Violence elsewhere killed at least three people, as international peacebroker Kofi...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
A leading rebel on Monday blamed the global community for failing to protect the Syrian people, saying it was ignoring the regime's "massacres" by refusing to arm the insurgents. "The international community, by delaying to put pressure on the regime...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Russia on Monday rejected Arab and Western calls for a deadline to be set for the Syrian regime's implementation of a peace plan put forward by international mediator Kofi Annan. "Ultimatums and artificial deadlines rarely help matters," Foreign...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Text Size Friends of Syria wants the United Nations to set a deadline for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to stop the bloodshed that is tearing the country apart.. Syria's acceptation of UN envoy Kofi Annan's plan to end the violence has made little...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Syrian forces Monday pressed their crackdown on dissent, killing at least three civilians and wounding many as they pounded rebel strongholds in the country's restive north, a monitoring group said. "At least one civilian was killed and eight injured...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
A Syrian government newspaper said on Monday that a weekend meeting in Istanbul of what it called the "Enemies of Syria" was a failure for those seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad. "Despite all the hype, the conference of the 'Enemies of...
