Syria: Annan’s Plan on Track, More Observers Soon
The Spokesman of the United Nations envoy to Syria Kofi Annan, Ahmad Fawzi, announced Friday that "there are signs of progress on the ground in the implementation of Annan's plan."
"I would say that the Annan's plan is on track and a crisis that has been going on for over a year is not going to be resolved in a day or a week," Fawzi stressed in Geneva.
He also added that "the issue requires more time to gather all the threads."
"There are signs on the ground despite that they are slow and small," the spokesman unveiled, pointing that "there are also signs behind the scenes as this mediation effort is conducted by definition below the radar."
Annan's spokesman further revealed that the UN envoy will brief the United Nations Security Council on the Syrian crisis next Tuesday by video link from Geneva.
For his part, the head of UN observer mission to Syria, Gen. Robert Mood, confirmed that "he will work for preserving stability in Syria according to the mission launched by the UN to achieve stability in the country."
Speaking to journalists in Lattakia province, Mood noted that "his mission is based on two-fold goals: to monitor the halt of violence and to implement the six-point plan of UN envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan."
"Our mission needs everybody's support, participation and abidance by the plan," the Un observer mentioned, calling the international bodies inside and outside Syria to commit to achieve this goal.
He said that "the international community as well as the Syrian government and people are concerned with getting the mission done."
"In all the places we have been in Syria, we felt the people's confidence in the UN as an international organization," Mood said.
Moreover, he expressed comfort that his team faced no problems so far in talking to everyone his team wanted to speak with.
"After completing the tour in Lattakia, I will go back to Damascus to continue building the observer team," he revealed.
The UN observer pointed out that "besides the 50 observers already present in Syria, more observers will arrive in the coming two days until the total number reaches 300 as already set."
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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