SYRIA: U.N.'s Mood returns from meeting at Syrian Foreign Ministry.

Record ID: 281043

  • Title: SYRIA: U.N.'s Mood returns from meeting at Syrian Foreign Ministry.
  • Date: 14th July 2012
  • Summary: DAMASCUS, SYRIA (JULY 14, 2012) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF HOTEL WHERE U.N. OBSERVERS ARE BASED VARIOUS OF HEAD OF UNITED NATIONS MISSION, GENERAL ROBERT MOOD, WALKING THROUGH HOTEL LOBBY AND INTO ELEVATOR VARIOUS OF U.N. OBSERVERS LOADING BAGS INTO U.N. VEHICLES VARIOUS OF OBSERVERS SAYING GOOD BYE TO EACH OTHER OBSERVER WEARING BLUE FLAK JACKET, CLIMBING INTO CAR MORE OF THE
  • Embargoed: 29th July 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Switzerland
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Topics: Conflict,International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAENVZA5R3ZLDJGAMXLCB7DLPED
  • Story Text: General Robert Mood, the head of the United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria, returns to his Damascus hotel after a meeting at the Syrian Foreign Ministry as other U.N. observers prepare for a follow up visit to Tremseh.
    U.N. observers were on their way to the central Syrian village of Tremseh on Saturday (July 14), two days after activists said 220 people had been killed there by helicopter gunships and militiamen, prompting international outrage.

    "We have sent a large integrated patrol today to seek verification of the facts," U.N. spokeswoman in Damascus Sausan Ghosheh said in an email. She said the patrol consisted of both civilian and military experts.
    On Friday, UN observers sent a patrol to assess the situation in the village, this was followed up with the larger observer mission on Saturday.
    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned what the U.N. reconnaissance mission on Friday (July 13) said was "indiscriminate" bombardment on the central Hama province town, including rocket-firing helicopters. He questioned Assad's commitment to a U.N.-sponsored peace plan for Syria.
    Syria said the attack was a successful military operation that killed a large number of "terrorists" but no civilians.
    On Saturday morning, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 30 people had been killed across the country, several of them by an army bombardment in Homs province, a focus of the 17-month pro-democracy revolt that Western powers say has left 17,000 dead.
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