Annan to tell U.N. Syria fails to withdraw weapons
Source: Reuters
By Oliver Holmes and Stephanie Nebehay
BEIRUT/GENEVA | Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:17pm EDT
(Reuters) - Syria has failed to comply with a pledge to withdraw weapons from cities, and citizens who meet U.N. truce monitors may have been killed, international mediator Kofi Annan will tell the Security Council on Tuesday, his spokesman said.
As violence flared in the Syrian capital Damascus, spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said Annan would ask for a "stronger presence" of monitors to watch over the country's ragged ceasefire.
Satellite imagery showed Syrian forces had not withdrawn heavy weapons from urban centers and returned to their barracks, as they are required to do under a plan drawn up by Annan, said Fawzi.
"This is unacceptable, and Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan will be saying this to the Security Council today when he addresses them in closed session," Fawzi added in remarks on U.N. Television.
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