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April 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda In the northern city of Aleppo, explosives stashed in a kiosk blew up, killing one person.
Activists’ claims could not be independently verified. The Syrian government rarely comments on specific incidents and bars most media from working inside the country.
According to UN estimates, more than 9,000 people have died in the regime’s crackdown on the uprising that began in March last year, inspired by Arab Spring protests that toppled long-time dictators in Tunisia and Egypt.
Russia said on Monday that the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Istanbul at the weekend contradicted the objective of reaching a peaceful settlement that could end more than a year of bloodshed.
“The promises and intentions to deliver direct military and logistical support to the armed… opposition that were voiced in Istanbul unquestionably contradict the goals of a peaceful settlement to the civil conflict in Syria,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Western and Arab nations called Sunday for Syrian President Assad to be set a deadline to meet the terms of a peace plan advanced by international mediator Kofi Annan. As the joint UN-Arab League envoy, Annan has been pushing for a cease-fire to allow all sides to discuss a political solution and will brief the UN Security Council on Monday.
The meeting also recognised the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) as the “legitimate representative” of all Syrians and the “leading interlocutor for the opposition with the international community.”
The SNC then announced plans to pay the salaries of Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters while nations such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar agreed to pay several million dollars to fund the FSA.
Russia boycotted the conference and said Monday that it had turned out to be as “one-sided” as Moscow had feared.
“Unfortunately, the meeting in Istanbul was as one-sided” as previous such gatherings, the foreign ministry statement said.
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