New York: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Syria has failed to comply with its obligation under a peace plan to pull troops and heavy weapons out of urban areas.
In a letter to the UN Security Council, he also called for an observer mission to be expanded from the small number already in the country to 300.
There are continued reports of violence in Syria, threatening the fragile week-old ceasefire there.
However, The UN secretary general also said there was an “opportunity for progress”.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet foreign ministers in Paris later to discuss the crisis.
New York: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Syria has failed to comply with its obligation under a peace plan to pull troops and heavy weapons out of urban areas.
In a letter to the UN Security Council, he also called for an observer mission to be expanded from the small number already in the country to 300.
There are continued reports of violence in Syria, threatening the fragile week-old ceasefire there.
However, The UN secretary general also said there was an “opportunity for progress”.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet foreign ministers in Paris later to discuss the crisis.
The peace plan, negotiated by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, aims to end more than a year of unrest thought to have killed at least 9,000 people.
Expressing concern over continuing violence, Ban said it was critical that the government kept its pledge to withdraw troops from populated areas.
He said while the level of violence dropped markedly when the ceasefire began, there had been an escalation in recent days, and breaches had been reported by both sides.
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