Observer chief in Syria to brief Security Council
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The head of the now suspended UN observer mission in Syria is traveling to New York to brief the UN Security Council in person on Tuesday afternoon amid growing concern that the escalating violence may spell the end of the monitoring effort and international envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan.
Gen. Robert Mood and UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous will meet the 15 council ambassadors behind closed doors to give their assessment of the upsurge in violence by government forces and the opposition in recent days, which led to Mood's suspension of patrols and all other activities by the 300 unarmed observers on Saturday. (AP)
