UN criticizes Damascus, armed gangs

Herve Ladsous said on Tuesday that all parties needed to take further steps to ensure a cessation of violence in all forms, AFP reported.

He added that the UN members had so far only offered 150 military observers for the 300-strong planned force.

Ladsous went on to say that 24 of the monitors were currently operating in Syria, despite earlier reports that they numbered 30.

On Tuesday, a dozen Syrian soldiers were killed in clashes with armed gangs in the northeastern Syria province of Dayr al-Zawr.

Separately, rights groups accuse government forces of bombarding a village in the Idlib province in northwestern Syria, killing 10 people.

The reported violence erupted despite a ceasefire that took effect on April 12 and the presence of the UN observers tasked with monitoring the truce.

The ceasefire was part of a six-point peace plan proposed by the UN-Arab League envoy, Kofi Annan in March.

The first group of the UN observers arrived in Damascus late on April 15. The observers were approved for the mission in line with the UN Security Council Resolution 2042 passed on April 14.

Head of the UN observer mission Major General Robert Mood, who arrived in Damascus on Sunday, demanded that all sides cooperate to end the “armed violence.”

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