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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Syrian soldiers stormed a town east of Damascus on Sunday and rebels bombed a military convoy in the north of the country as international mediator Kofi Annan urged both sides to work with an expanded team of UN ceasefire monitors. The group of...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Syrian activists say government soldiers backed by tanks have killed three people near Damascus, even as international envoy Kofi Annan called the U.N. Security Council's decision to deploy 300 cease-fire monitors in Syria a "pivotal moment" for the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
UN envoy Kofi Annan on Sunday asked the Damascus regime and the opposition to immediately halt violence and the use of heavy weapons. "I urge all forces whether governmental, opposition or others to put down their weapons and work with the United...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Website Editorial Staff 2012-04-22 10:28 AM The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved increasing the number of cease-fire monitors in Syria on Saturday, and the battered...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 1 year ago
Five unarmed U.N. truce monitors toured the battered city at the heart of the Syrian uprising on foot Saturday, encountering unusually calm streets after weeks of shelling as a throng of residents clamored for foreign military help to oust President...
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Sofia Echo
| 1 year ago
The additional monitors will join a small advance team already on the ground in Syria. The measure approved Saturday is a follow-up to Security Council resolution 2042, adopted unanimously one week ago, which approved a small contingent of up to 30...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
The UN Security Council reached a tentative agreement yesterday to expand the number of UN ceasefire observers in Syria from 30 to 300 and let Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon decide on their deployment. The resolution calls on the Syrian government and...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Associated Press 2012-04-20 04:25 PM China said Friday that it is willing to send observers to monitor a U.N. cease-fire aimed at stopping 13 months of fighting in Syria . Foreign Ministry...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Barely had the first UN cease fire monitors set foot on Syrian soil this week than Bashar al-Assad's enemies were discussing the likelihood of the mission failing and warning of punitive measures against the Syrian president. The emir of Qatar gave...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Security Council has reached a tentative accord on a resolution to send a 300-strong ceasefire observer force to Syria which could be voted Saturday, diplomats said. Russia's U.N. ambassador called for a "unanimous vote" on the text his country took...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
AP Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of Syria to Geneva Faysal Khabbaz Hamoui (center) answers questions from the media after the Syrian Humanitarian Forum at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
21 The UN Security Council has scheduled a vote on a draft resolution on Saturday to send up to 300 unarmed military observers to Syria, despite US and European concerns that Damascus has yet to fully implement a ceasefire.
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin expressed hope "there's going to be a unanimous vote tomorrow."...Ambassador Susan Rice, the current council president, said there is a possibility that not all 15 council members would agree to the text or have instructions...
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China News
| 1 year ago
Beijing has offered to send observers to take part in the United Nations' monitoring mission of the cease-fire in Syria. China supported the UN's decision to send 300 observers and an advance team of 30 truce monitors to Syria, and is willing to send...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
An additional 30 United Nations monitors should arrive in Syria in the coming week to join an advance team of seven observing a fragile weeklong cease-fire which has failed to end bloodshed in the country, a spokesman for envoy Kofi Annan said Friday.
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Russia and European nations on Friday put forward rival draft UN Security Council resolutions on sending a 300-strong UN ceasefire observer force to Syria, diplomats said. There are already seven UN observers in Syria but a new UN resolution would be...
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Daily Nation
| 1 year ago
Friday Syrian opposition activists called protests against President Bashar al-Assad's regime Friday in a new test of its readiness to honour a peace plan. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has already stated that the Syrian government has so far failed to honour...
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Arizona Daily Sun
| 1 year ago
Friday, April 20, 2012 11:27 am (0) Comments Font Size: European nations and Russia proposed rival U.N. resolutions Friday, both calling for expanding the number of U.N. cease-fire monitors in Syria from 30 to 300 but disagreeing on possible...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The United States is warning allies to be prepared to increase pressure on Syria if UN envoy Kofi Annan's plan for ending government attacks on the opposition fails, the State Department said Friday. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made clear to...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
At least 10 security personnel were killed in a bombing in the area of Quneitra near the Syrian border with Israel, reported state television, blaming the attack on what it called "a terrorist group." Opposition activists said military forces on...
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China News
| 1 year ago
China will send personnel to join the United Nations' (UN) observers mission and its advance team in Syria, it was confirmed on Friday. "China is discussing the details with the UN Secretariat," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told a regular...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Syrian activists report government forces are pounding a rebel-held section of the central city of Homs, the latest violence to grip a nation already losing its hold on an ever shakier cease-fire. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The internationally-backed ceasefire in Syria is in a fragile state and the situation on the ground is not good, a spokesperson for the plan's architect Kofi Annan said on Friday. Ahmad Fawzi said there were new victims of violence every day. "The...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
This is our last chance to avoid civil war," Juppe told BFM television. "We have this (Kofi Annan) agreement with all our partners so we have to give it a chance for a few more days. We have to give the Annan mission every chance to succeed,...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe speaks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a meeting on Syria (Reuters) Kofi Annan's plan to resolve the Syrian crisis is "the last hope" for a country ravaged by a year-long crackdown on civilians,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe declared on Friday that the UN observer mission in Syria needs to be able to guarantee Syrians the freedom to protest against Bashar al-Assad's regime. "We need observers on the ground, but properly equipped...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
15 The US has called on the UN Security Council to adopt an arms embargo and other tough measures against Syria to try to halt 13 months of bloodshed. Addressing the so-called Friends of Syria group in Paris on Thursday, Hillary Clinton, US secretary...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-04-20 10:49 AM Major international powers meeting in Paris Thursday called a UN-backed peace plan the last hope to resolve the Syria n crisis. The meeting...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
While Damascus and the UN have signed an agreement on the terms of the UN monitoring mission in Syria, the US has called for tougher sanctions against the Assad regime, including a global arms embargo. The Friends of Syria coalition stepped up...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Syria and the United Nations signed an agreement Thursday on terms for hundreds of observers to monitor a ceasefire, but fierce diplomatic wrangling lies ahead to persuade the West the mission can have the authority and power to ensure peace.
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
In what seems as a last-ditch attempt to avert fearful scenarios in Syria, the United Nations Security Council adopted Annan's six-point plan including sending monitors to oversee the cease-fire, which went into effect on April 12. But it was clear...
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Glen Ridge Voice
| 1 year ago
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for the U.N. Security Council to adopt an arms embargo and other tough measures against Syria to try to halt 13 months of bloodshed, but she acknowledged such diplomatic actions would likely...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
His remarks have come as France also calls for a more robust UN mission, saying Syria is headed for civil war, and as the United States demands tougher UN sanctions and an arms embargo on President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The UN chief overnight...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Security Council is considering a request from the secretary-general to deploy up to 300 monitors to Syria, as a week-old truce is tested by reports of escalating violence. In a letter to the Security Council on Wednesday night, Secretary-General...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Bashar al-Assad has been accused of wanting to wipe Homs off the map' and warned to accept UN observers. Photograph: Sana/EPA UN observers must be swiftly deployed to Syria or "other options" will be considered, President Bashar al-Assad was warned...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
France said Thursday that Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime had failed to comply with a UN peace plan and warned of civil war unless foreign monitors are given the means to oversee a ceasefire. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe was speaking in Paris...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that 300 unarmed monitors need to be deployed to Syria immediately to protect the fragile cease-fire plan. Share This Story "Without underestimating the serious challenges ahead, an...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Syria and the United Nations signed an agreement on Thursday on terms for hundreds of observers to monitor a cease fire, but diplomatic wrangling still lies ahead to persuade the West the mission will have the clout needed to ensure peace. An advance...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
25 Unverified video shows what appears to be protesters surrounding UN observer vehicles in Damascus on Wednesday Syria and the United Nations have signed a deal on the framework for international observers to monitor the nation's shaky ceasefire...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
A statement from UN-Arab League mediator Kofi Annan said the Syrian government and the United Nations had agreed a basis for a "protocol" on the deployment of more observers. "This agreement outlines the functions of the observers as they fulfill...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
In a letter to the United Nations Security Council, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the Syrian government is not living up to its end of the bargain on a week-old cease-fire deal. Ban says the government has failed to keep its pledge to withdraw...
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China News
| 1 year ago
China is considering sending personnel to participate in the United Nations' observers mission in Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said here Thursday...The advance team of UN observers arrived in Damascus Sunday night to monitor the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged the international community on Thursday to ensure the UN-backed peace plan in Syria works and abandon "self-fulfilling prophecies" that it will fail. Brussels, Lavrov said Russia was "honestly fulfilling...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Security Council to authorize a three-month observer mission. In a letter to the president of the Security Council, Ban said President Bashar al-Assad's government has not pulled back its troops and heavy weapons, and that no progress has been made...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
China said Thursday it was considering sending observers to monitor a Syrian ceasefire that came into force last week but is under threat as violence escalates. "China is earnestly looking into whether to send observers to Syria or not," Foreign...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
The UN chief has said Syria has not fully complied with the UN-brokered peace plan and he aims to send more monitors to the embattled country. In Paris, Friends of Syria talks push for opposition support potentially destabilizing the delicate truce.
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
He wants to wipe Homs off the map just like (former Libyan President Muammar) Gaddafi wanted to destroy Benghazi," Sarkozy said. "The solution is the establishment of humanitarian corridors so that an opposition can exist in Syria," he told Europe 1...
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The Hindustan Times
| 1 year ago
Syria has not fully withdrawn troops and heavy weapons from towns, so far failing to send a "clear signal" about its commitment to peace, the UN chief said, underlining Western fears over the prospects for a week-old truce. In the first progress...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Syrian regime backers must justify how they can let the bloodshed go on, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said before meeting with counterparts Thursday. "The burden has shifted," Clinton told reporters in Brussels Wednesday before flying to...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
As UN observers were greeted by hundreds of anti-regime protesters on the streets of Damascus yesterday (today local time), Washington said their mission was not being given the necessary freedom to properly monitor a halt to hostilities. "We have a...
