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• UN diplomat: Annan deputy appeals for Syria talks

  (AP) -- A U.N. diplomat says a deputy to international envoy Kofi Annan is appealing for a genuine political process to break the cycle of violence in Syria.Jean-Marie Guehenno told a closed meeting of the U.N. Security Council by videoconference from Ge   Read more »

• Ban tells CNN Annan plan is Syria's only choice

  (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says international envoy Kofi Annan 's peace plan is the only option right now for ending the violence in Syria.Ban said in an interview Thursday with CNN's Christiane Amanpour that "at this time, we don't have   Read more »

• NATO officials: No plan to intervene in Syria

  (AP) -- United States and NATO officials say the North Atlantic alliance has no intention of intervening militarily to quell violence in Syria.NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder said members of the allian   Read more »

• Top military officers targeted in Syrian conflict

  (AP) -- The gunmen walked into an apartment building before dawn earlier this month in the quiet Damascus suburb of Jaramana, went to the fifth floor and knocked on the door. When the police commander opened up, the men shot him dead and left.Syrian Pres   Read more »

• Annan calls Syria situation 'bleak'

  (AP) -- International envoy Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that the situation in Syria is "bleak" and expressed alarm at reports that government troops are still carrying out military operations in towns where U.N. observers are not pr   Read more »

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• Intemperate language suggests that violence is legitimate - Dr Aning

  Emmanuel Kwesi Aning, Director of Research at the Kofi Annan International Peace Training Center (KAIPTC), has noted that political violence does not happen out of a vacuum and that intemperate language suggests that violence is legitimate. Talking to the 5/31/12 from Ghana Web Read more »

• Damascus finds armed groups responsible for Houla massacre, US does not believe

  it is against any military involvement in Syria. "The best way to avoid catastrophic scenarios is to try to implement the Kofi Annan plan," Russia’s envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, said on Wednesday, adding that “the effort must be made by everybody.” 5/31/12 from Russia Today Read more »

• Syria on brink of sectarian civil war, West says

  Annan's plan. Annan's spokesman said it was not for the peace envoy to declare defeat. "The Annan plan does not belong to Kofi Annan. It belongs to the parties that have accepted it and the international community that has endorsed it," Ahmad Fawzi told Reuters. 5/31/12 from Vancouver Sun Read more »

• Irwin Cotler: Since When Did the Right to Protect Become the Right to Protect Syria's Massacres?

  artillery -- which were to have been withdrawn to barracks in accordance with the UN Security Council Resolution endorsing the Kofi Annan peace plan -- indiscriminately bombarded the Syrian town of Houla by day, and followed it up with a particularly barbaric 5/31/12 from The Huffington Post: Canada Edition Read more »

• Houla and al-Assad

  massacres, in which we don’t quite know what role Kofi Annan plays, are continuing to be committed with full force in Syria. What has been witnessed as massacres of the al-Assad regime up until yesterday are now being called “violations of the Annan peace 5/31/12 from Hurriet Daily News Read more »