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New UN Syria mission "facing difficult challenge: Russia

14 April 2012 22:24 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Russia said here Friday that the UN supervision mission in Syria is "facing a difficult challenge," and calls on all parties to "establish favorable conditions including from the standpoint of ensuring security" for the UN observers, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

Vitaly Churkin, the Russian permanent representative to the United Nations, made the statement as he was addressing an open meeting of the UN Security Council after the 15-nation UN body unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing an advance team of up to 30 unarmed military observers to monitor the ceasefire and cessation of violence in Syria.

"The observers, which will include one Russian officer, are facing a difficult challenge," Churkin said. "They will need a high degree of professionalism, courage, and objectivity."

"For the work of the observers, it is necessary to establish favorable conditions including from the standpoint of ensuring security," he said.

The Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted the resolution authorizing the observers to "liaise with the parties and to begin to report on the implementation of a full cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties."

The Security Council "expresses its intention, subject to a sustained cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties, to establish immediately, after consultations between the secretary-general and the Syrian government, a United Nations supervision mission in Syria to monitor a cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties," the resolution said.

The UN mission is also mandated to monitor the implementation of the six-point peace plan by Kofi Annan, the joint special envoy of the UN and Arab League for Syria, the resolution said.

Annan’s six-point plan, widely backed by the international community, calls for the withdrawal of heavy weapons and troops from population centers, a daily halt in fighting for the delivery of humanitarian aid and treatment for the wounded, as well as talks between the government and opposition.

The Syrian government has accepted Annan’s six-point plan and the April 10 deadline to put an early end to the fighting in the Middle East country, which has been plunged into the crisis since March 2011.

An advance team of up to 30 unarmed military observers, drawn from various United Nations peacekeeping or observer missions in the region, was due to be sent as soon as possible the Security Council approves it, said Ahmad Fawzi, Annan’s spokesman, in Geneva.

The full mission would reach 250 observers, Fawzi said, and, and as is common on such missions, Syria would have ultimate approval over the nationalities involved.

"We now await urgent submission by the secretary-general to the council of specific proposals to launch a broad-scale UN observer presence, after consultations with the government of Syria," Churkin said.

"We have agreed to the resolution considering also the need to support the Annan’s mission," he said.

"Now we are at an extremely critical juncture," he said. "It is essential that all Syrian parties including the armed opposition quickly refrain from violence, strictly observe the Annan plan, and begin to organize a broad-based negotiating process."

On the newly adopted resolution, Churkin said, "We supported today’s resolution in the council considering the need for a rapid deployment in Syria of the UN observer advance mission."

"The resolution addresses requirements not only to the government of Syria but also to opposition groups to fully cooperate with monitors and to fulfill the Annan six-point proposal,’ he said. "The initial draft resolution under the influence of Russia and a number of other council members has undergone substantive changes to make it more balanced, to appropriately reflect realities and to take into account the prerogatives of the government of Syrian receiving the observer mission on the territory of its country."

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