Thursday, December 22, 2011

Arab League team arrives in Syria as violence goes on | Top News | Reuters

Arab League team arrives in Syria as violence goes on | Top News | Reuters

clip from article: By Dominic Evans

BEIRUT (Reuters) - An advance team from the Arab League arrived in Syria on Thursday ahead of the deployment of monitors to judge whether Damascus is implementing a peace plan it agreed last month.

The plan entails a withdrawal of troops from the streets, release of prisoners and dialogue with the opposition. Thousands have died in a crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad and, increasingly, in fighting between mutinous troops and security forces.

Arab League sources have said the advance team, led by top League official Samir Seif al-Yazal, comprises a dozen people, including financial, administrative and legal experts to ensure monitors have free access across Syria.

The main group of around 150 observers is to arrive by the end of December. Syria stalled for six weeks before signing a protocol on Monday to admit the monitors.

Events in Syria are hard to verify because authorities have banned most independent reporting. [ read more at link]

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