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Syria: Western Powers Close To Abandoning UN Peace Plan -- The Telegraph
Britain and America came close to writing off the United Nations peace plan for Syria on Thursday after the latest massacre of as many as 78 villagers triggered international outrage.
The bloodshed in Qubeir on Wednesday night bore a strong resemblance to the mass killing of 108 Sunnis in the town of Houla on 25 May, which prompted 13 states, including Britain, to register their revulsion by expelling Syrian diplomats. A further incident would, said officials, cause the international community to review its entire approach towards handling the conflict, based on a peace plan devised by Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, yesterday declared that this proposal was "not working" and urged President Bashar al-Assad of Syria to surrender power and go into exile after the "unconscionable" killings. William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said that Mr Annan's proposals had "clearly failed so far".
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Update: U.N. monitors shot at in Syria, Annan plan crumbles -- Reuters
My Comment: The UN Syrian peace plan is dead .... the Syrian government never had any interest to pursue it .... a fact that even UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is now acknowledging.
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