SYRIA/FILE: U.N. observers prepare to visit schools and hospitals in old Damascus as part of limited monitoring activity, despite suspension of full scale operation

Record ID: 281201

  • Title: SYRIA/FILE: U.N. observers prepare to visit schools and hospitals in old Damascus as part of limited monitoring activity, despite suspension of full scale operation
  • Date: 2nd July 2012
  • Summary: DAMASCUS, SYRIA (FILE) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) VARIOUS OF OMAYYADES SQUARE PEOPLE IN OLD DAMASCUS STREET SCENES
  • Embargoed: 17th July 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Syrian Arab Republic
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflict,International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVABL77CMZ062T2UQ3TCM1LEG3JP
  • Story Text: A team of U.N. observers set out for old Damascus on Sunday (July 1) on a humanitarian visit to schools and hospitals despite seuspension of operations.
    The U.N. on Tuesday (June 26) announced that the increasing danger in Syria made it impossible for the observers to carry out missions, some of which had already been suspended in the beginning of June.
    However the mission is still engaged in limited monitoring activity.
    An international meeting held on Saturday (June 30) in Geneva discussed the situation in Syria and to try to forge a common strategy to end the 16 month-old conflict in Syria.
    International mediator Kofi Annan appealed to world powers to reach unity on a peace plan for Syria, including principles for a Syrian-led political transition.
    Annan, in opening remarks to a meeting of foreign ministers in Geneva, said the situation could ignite the region and develop into an international crisis if unresolved.
    British Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed the backing of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council for Annan's plan.
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