Top Stories
REUTERS
GENEVA: Fifteen more ceasefire monitors of a total advance team of 30 are expected to be in Syria by Monday and every effort is being made to deploy the full mission of up to 300 observers, the spokesman for international mediator Kofi Annan said on Friday. “We expect the 30 will be on the ground by the end of April, on Monday,” Annan spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told Reuters in Geneva. “There’s no delay, on the contrary it has been an extremely fast deployment of the 15 who are on the ground plus civilian support. They need administration and are setting up headquarters.