UN Monitors Head to Syria as Cease-Fire Placed at Risk
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An advance team of 25 United Nations military observers are headed to Syria after the Security Council authorized their deployment to monitor a cease-fire at risk from reported shelling by security forces in Homs.
The UN’s 15-member council voted unanimously yesterday to dispatch a first wave of monitors and urged President Bashar al-Assad to “implement visibly its commitments in their entirety” under a six-point cease-fire plan from UN special envoy Kofi Annan. A bigger mission will follow, if conditions allow it.