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April 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, said the Paris meeting, to be
attended by 14 ministers including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
would send a “strong” call to the regime of President Bashar
al-Assad to abide by the peace plan brokered by Annan.
But Syrian ally Russia said it was staying away because the talks were only
aimed at isolating the regime and would hurt the chances of direct peace
talks.
The UN leader has said he wants 300 unarmed observers sent on a three-month
mission, also insisting that the Assad’s regime adhere to the peace plan.
The 300 observers would be deployed over several weeks and go to about 10
different parts of Syria.
Their job will be to monitor the fragile cessation of hostilities that began
on April 12 and the implementation of the Annan plan, to which Syria has
committed itself.
Ban said the proposed mission would “greatly contribute to observing and
upholding the commitment of the parties to a cessation of armed violence in
all its forms.”
Diplomats said a resolution allowing the full observer mission could be ready
early next week if there is agreement by the Security Council.
Monitors say that more than 11,000 people have been killed since the uprising
against Assad’s regime erupted in March 2011, with more than 120 dying since
the truce came into force.
At least three people were killed in violence across Syria on Thursday, the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
One civilian was killed during an assault by government forces in the
northeastern oil city of Deir Ezzor and two others died from gunfire in the
town of Yabrud, north of Damascus, the watchdog said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the latest clashes came after 30
people were killed on Wednesday, 22 of them civilians. In the central city
of Homs alone, 13 civilians died in renewed bombardment.
Ahead of the Paris meeting, French President Nicolas Sarkozy accused the
regime of trying to erase Homs, Syria’s third largest city, from the map.
Although he opted to stay away from the Paris meeting, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow was “honestly fulfilling its
part” to end the violence.
“I have today called on my colleagues to abandon the rhetoric of
self-fulfilling prophecies that Kofi Annan’s plan will certainly fail,”
Lavrov said in Brussels.
In a counter-charge, Mr Juppe said: “I regret that Russia continues to
lock itself into a vision that isolates it more and more, not just from the
Arab world but also from the international community.”
Ministers from Germany, Turkey, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and
elsewhere were to attend the talks which would, Juppe said, send “a
message of firmness and support for Kofi Annan.”
Ban said on Wednesday that violence levels had “dropped markedly”
since the ceasefire, but that the government “has yet to fully
implement its initial obligations” for a withdrawal of troops and heavy
armour from towns.
However, “an opportunity for progress may now exist, on which we need to
build,” he said.
A seven-strong advance team of UN military observers arrived in Damascus on
Sunday. By the end of the week, their numbers are to swell to the 30 already
authorised by the Security Council.
Mr Ban said the team has so far been refused permission to go to Homs, with
Syrian officials citing “security concerns.”
The official SANA news agency said the observers went to Dera’a again on
Thursday, even as the Syrian Observatory reported new clashes in the area.
Mr Ban there were violent incidents when the UN observers went to Arbeen, in
the Damascus suburbs, on Wednesday.
Source: AFP
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