Advance team of 6 monitors in Syria in 24 hours
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An initial team of six ceasefire monitors is due to arrive in Syria within 24 hours and deploy within 36 hours, with more to follow within days, the spokesman for international mediator Kofi Annan said on Saturday.
Annan spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told Reuters in Geneva that a six-person advance team, led by a Moroccan colonel, would be "quickly supplemented by more from UNTSO (United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation) in a matter of days".(Reuters)
