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International
- The United Nations (UN) and Arab League's Joint Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan told the UN Security Council that Damascus did not completely abide by his plan or even the ceasefire decision that came into effect on Thursday morning, adding that the frail truce in Syria needs to be backed.(1)(2)(9)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15) - The French Foreign Minister Allen Juppe announced that France has evidences for committing crimes against humanity at the hands of Al-Assad's regime that might be referred to the international judiciary.(3)(8)(9) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that AlAssad's regime has to implement the whole 6 points of Annan's plan, as it would not be able to choose what it wants and disregards what it does not want.(1)(2)(8)(9) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the Syrian regime did not abide by the ceasefire decision or even Annan's plan, stressing the importance of withdrawing all tanks from the Syrian cities with a view to restoring confidence among the Syrians, as he put it. Furthermore, he said that Ankara might ask the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to protect its borders with Syria following the gunfire committed by the Syrian security forces against a camp inside the Turkish lands.(1)(4)(9)(12) - The British Prime Minister David Cameron urges Russia and China to join the world to tighten the grip on the Syrian regime to completely implement the ceasefire decision. (15)
Asharq Al-Awsat The London-based Al-Hayat (3) The Kuwaiti Al-Watan (4) Al-Quds Al-Arabi (5) The Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal (6) The Syrian Al-Baath (7) Reuters (8) AFP (9) The Qatari Al-Jazeera (10) The Israeli Haaretz (11) Washington Post (12) wall Street Journal (13) The Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth
Political Mobility
- Burhan Ghalioun, head of the Syrian National Council (SNC), called on the Syrians to demonstrate following the implementation of the ceasefire decision in Syria. He also called on the states backing Annan's plan to ensure means of protection for anti-regime demonstrations. Furthermore, he wondered what does the ceasefire decision mean in terms of the complete readiness to fight at any moment.(7)(8)(9) - Bassam Jaara, spokesman of the Syrian Revolution General commission in Europe, asserted that the Syrian people would not stop demonstrating, in spite of the fact that they are not against Annan's plan.(1) - The Syrian opposition key figure Haitham Al-Maleh asserted that the Syrian refugees would only return to Syria in case Al-Assad's regime was toppled, because they do not
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