- Title: SYRIA: U.N. observers prepare for move into Syria violence hotspots.
- Date: 14th July 2012
- Summary: DAMASCUS, SYRIA (JULY 14,2012) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL): EXTERIOR OF HOTEL, U.N. VEHICLES PARKED OUTSIDE U.N. OBSERVER WALKING OUT OF HOTEL ENTRANCE LOGO FOR DAMA ROSE HOTEL HEAD OF U.N. MISSION IN SYRIA (UNSMIS), GENERAL ROBERT MOOD, WALKING IN HOTEL LOBBY MOOD'S DELEGATION WALKING INTO ELEVATOR VARIOUS OF OBSERVERS IN HOTEL LOBBY, GREETING EACH OTHER AND TALKING VARIOUS OF L
- Embargoed: 29th July 2012 13:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Syrian Arab Republic
- Country: Syria
- Topics: Conflict,International Relations,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVACRIA6IPAZI8G4Q9T6GDCAZP8V
- Story Text: U.N. observers in Syria get ready to leave their base at a Damascus hotel to increase their presence in four key cities.
At their base in a Damascus hotel, U.N. observers were getting ready on Saturday (July 14) to continue their monitoring activities in four main centres of violence in Syria: Homs, Aleppo, Deir Azzor and Damascus.
U.N. observers in Syria described an attack on a village in the Hama region on Thursday (July 12) in which about 220 people were reported killed as part of a continuing Syrian air force operation, the U.N. mission said in an assessment obtained by Reuters.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned what his monitors on the ground had seen as an "indiscriminate" bombardment that included rocket-firing helicopters of the town of Tremseh in rebellious Hama province, and he questioned Assad's commitment to a U.N.-sponsored peace plan for Syria.
But at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S. diplomats and their Western allies continued to run up against a refusal on the part of Russia to lift its veto on harsher sanctions or any steps Moscow views as imposing "regime change" in Damascus. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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