Syria and the United Nations signed an agreement on
Thursday on terms for hundreds of observers to monitor a ceasefire, but
diplomatic wrangling still lies ahead to persuade the West the mission will
have the clout needed to ensure peace.
An
advance party of half a dozen U.N. observers are already in Syria observing a
week-old truce, but the question of whether that can be expanded to a
full-blown monitoring mission is up in the air, especially as a week-old ceasefire
has yet to halt violence in the worst-hit parts of the country.
The
15-member U.N. Security Council - divided between Western countries that want
to topple Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad and Russia
and China
which support him - must agree the proposal to send a larger observer force. CONTINUE - - - - - - -
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