SWITZERLAND: U.N.-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan meets with Syrian mission head Major-General Robert Mood

Record ID: 280557

  • Title: SWITZERLAND: U.N.-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan meets with Syrian mission head Major-General Robert Mood
  • Date: 5th April 2012
  • Summary: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (APRIL 4, 2012) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF THE UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN HEADQUARTERS
  • Embargoed: 20th April 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Switzerland, Switzerland
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Reuters ID: LVADFRFZMYBUUCT41XZGZL0HKGRU
  • Story Text: U.N.-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan on Wednesday (April 4) met with Norway's Major-General Robert Mood at the UN headquarters in Geneva.
    Mood will head a U.N. mission which is expected to arrive in Damascus in a first step to implement an international peace plan.
    The advance mission is part of the latest international effort to end a year of bloodshed that began with peaceful protests against Assad's authoritarian rule in March 2011.
    Headed by Mood, the mission is part of efforts to implement a deal between Assad and international mediator Kofi Annan for an April 10 withdrawal of Syrian forces, to be followed by a ceasefire by rebel forces within 48 hours.
    During the visit, it is expected to discuss deploying some 250 U.N. monitors to oversee a ceasefire. But his acceptance of a troop withdrawal has met scepticism among the Syrian opposition and its Western and Arab supporters.
    U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said on Tuesday the Security Council would have to respond if Assad used the next seven days to intensify the violence.
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