Annan Soon in Syria, UN Fears A Third Side Interferes
The United Nations envoy Kofi Annan is scheduled to return soon to Damascus.
Diplomats in Geneva said the former UN Secretary General would visit the Syrian capital, Damascus, early next week.
This comes as a report by current UN head Ban Ki-moon said, meanwhile, that "rebel groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad now control significant parts of some cities and there is considerable physical destruction across the country."
"There is a continuing crisis on the ground, characterized by regular violence, deteriorating humanitarian conditions, human rights violations and continued political confrontation," said the report, obtained by AFP on Friday. It is to be debated by the UN Security Council next week.
In parallel Ki-moon's spokesman, Martin Nesirky, expressed fear that a third force or element was "at play in Syria and that this undoubtedly complicates the task for the monitors and the international community in seeking to ensure that the six-point plan is fully implemented."
Reuters quoted Nesirky as telling reporters in New York that "There's no hard evidence on specific group."
He further pointed out that "some of the attacks are of the kind and nature that suggests that there is behind them a force or element with the organizational capacity and political intent to carry out violence on that scale."
Earlier, Ki-moon earlier expressed his belief that al-Qaeda was responsible for the two suicide booby-trapped car bombs that killed or wounded hundreds of innocent Syrian citizens.
Source: News agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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