Syria says committed to Annan plan

According to a statement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Muallem told his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi in Beijing on Wednesday that Damascus is committed to implementing the ceasefire, withdrawing troops from crisis-hit cities and cooperating with UN observers in Syria to monitor the implementation of the Annan plan.

Muallem also told reporters that Damascus wants to see sufficient numbers of UN observers in the hot-spots and that Syria is ready to give the monitoring mission access to its Air Force.

Muallem’s remarks came as Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is preparing plans to increase the UN observer force from 30 to 250 members.

An initial group of six monitors arrived in Syria on Sunday and the observers have so far visitedthe southern city of Dara’a.

Calm has returned to most parts of Syria since the ceasefire was announced almost a week ago, though there have been reports of sporadic clashes in some parts of the country with Damascus accusing armed groups of violating the truce by continuing attacks on government forces.

Opposition activists have been claiming that the army has killed a number of civilians since the ceasefire took effect last Thursday.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011 and many people, including security forces, have been killed in the unrest.

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