SYRIA: Chief of the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) Robert Moood tells reporters in Damascus that the search for a solution to the Syrian crisis continues

Record ID: 281041

  • Title: SYRIA: Chief of the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) Robert Moood tells reporters in Damascus that the search for a solution to the Syrian crisis continues
  • Date: 4th July 2012
  • Summary: RESENDING WITH FULL SCRIPT DAMASCUS, SYRIA (JULY 3, 2012) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF THE HOTEL AND UN CARS VARIOUS OF UN OBSERVERS GETTING READY TO GO ON A VISIT UN SIGN ON A CAR (SOUNDBITE) (English) ROBERT MOOD, UNSMIS CHIEF, SAYING: "We are working hard to plan on what steps to take next and meeting with different stakeholders to find the best way forward." MOOD IN THE
  • Embargoed: 19th July 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Syrian Arab Republic
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflict,International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA4EH3QGTM2UR4EIG36TKIM15QJ
  • Story Text: The chief of the United Nation's Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) tells reporters in Damascus that the search for a solution to the Syrian crisis continues following the weekend's inconclusive meeting of world powers in Geneva.

    "We are working hard to plan on what steps to take next and meeting with different stakeholders to find the best way forward", said Robert Mood, Chief of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria on Tuesday (July 3).
    This was Mood's first comments after arriving back in Damascus from Geneva where he attended an international meeting to break the impasse over a plan to ease Syrian President Bashar Assad out of power, end violence and create a new government.
    Diplomacy has so far failed to stem the bloodshed, which Syrian opposition leaders say has killed more than 15,000 people during the 16-month conflict. World powers agreed at the weekend to back talks on a transitional government. But they failed to narrow differences between the West and Russia over Western demands that Assad must go. Turkey, which has long demanded the Syrian leader's removal, said Assad could play no part in a transitional government, but suggested the Syrian opposition would do well to accept envoy Kofi Annan's internationally endorsed proposal.
    Increasing violence in Syria's hotspots forced UNSMIS to suspend its activities more than two week ago.
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