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UN Syria observers visit Homs neighbourhood
UN observers struggling to shore up a shaky cease-fire in Syria visited an embattled neighbourhood in the central city of Homs on Sunday, the Syrian State news agency said. Activists said Government snipers shot dead two people nearby.
SANA said the observers toured the Khaldiyeh district, which has seen heavy Government shelling and clashes between Syrian forces and rebels.
The observers in Homs are part of an advance team of 15 UN monitors in Syria trying to salvage a peace plan brokered by special envoy Kofi Annan that aims to end the country’s 13-month-old crisis. Under the plan, a cease-fire is supposed to lead to talks between President Bashar Assad and Opposition on a political solution to conflict that has killed more than 9,000 people.
The regime has kept up its attacks on Opposition strongholds, while rebel fighters continue to ambush security forces.
UN observers struggling to shore up a shaky cease-fire in Syria visited an embattled neighbourhood in the central city of Homs on Sunday, the Syrian State news agency said. Activists said Government snipers shot dead two people nearby.
SANA said the observers toured the Khaldiyeh district, which has seen heavy Government shelling and clashes between Syrian forces and rebels.
The observers in Homs are part of an advance team of 15 UN monitors in Syria trying to salvage a peace plan brokered by special envoy Kofi Annan that aims to end the country’s 13-month-old crisis. Under the plan, a cease-fire is supposed to lead to talks between President Bashar Assad and Opposition on a political solution to conflict that has killed more than 9,000 people.
The regime has kept up its attacks on Opposition strongholds, while rebel fighters continue to ambush security forces.
