International representative Kofi Annan attempted to take a breath of new life Monday into his dying peace endeavours in Syria, telling that an agreement reached with with President Bashar Assad and would talk about it soon with rebel leaders. Opposition activists aroused the death toll in the struggle to more than 17,000.
Annan, who creates the primary international plan in order to end Syria’s 16-month-old crisis, came in Iran late Monday to talk with leaders. With the ferocity in Syria which is increasing wild and diplomatic efforts bumbling, Annan has said Iran, a staunch Syrian friend, should be in a role of a solution-maker for the conflict.
“We are in agreement with an approach which I’ll share with the armed opposition,” Annan said to reporters following a two-hour meeting with Assad which he described as “candid and reconstructive” Monday.
“I also emphasised the importance of political dialogue.” he stated. Annan didn’t reveal points of the agreement he reached with Assad.
Annan’s attempts to factor in order to make an end to the Syrian struggle as the U.N.-Arab League representative have separated the threads as the uprising which started with peaceful protests in March 2011 has coiled towards civil war.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated Monday that 17,129 people had killed since March 2011 are 11,897 civilians, 4,348 soldiers and 884 military defectors.
The group has a network of the ones engaged in activism on the ground who furnish with documents of deaths and rights violations through eyewitness, accounts, hospitals and video footage. Another group, the Local Coordination Committees, tells 14,841 civilians and fighters have been shot down. The LCC doesn’t report Syrian military deaths.
The government limits journalists from acting freely, making it impractical to independently affirm death tolls.
The violence has grown progressively wild in recent months because rebels acquire a lot of arms, and it’s hard to assign blame for much of the slaughter since the country spirals towards civil state of war. Activists have reported an average of about a hundred people killed on some days in the past few weeks.
In an interview with the Le Monde on Saturday, Annan noticed that the international community’s attempts to find out a political solution to the intensifying ferocity in Syria have failed. He added together that more attention required to be paid to the role of longtime Syrian ally Iran, telling Tehran “ought to be part of the solution.”
It’s ambiguous what role Annan envisions for Islamic Republic of Iran, a halt Syrian friend that stands alongside Assad throughout the uprising. Tehran’s close ties could make it an middleman with the regime, although the United States. has often denied to allow the Islamic Republic to attend to group discussion about the Syria crisis.
Annan’s six-point peace project was to start with a suspension of combat in mid-April between Assad forces and rebels , who are in the pursue of democracy, looking for falling Assad regime, to be accompanied by political dialogue. But the cease-fire never took control, and almost 300 United Nations. observers which were sent to monitor the cease-fire are now captive to their hotels because of the escalating ferocity.
“Assad assured me of the government’s commitment to the six-point plan which, naturally, we had better act to carry out in a much better way than has been the situation til now,” Annan said to reporters Monday.
State-run news agency SANA stated Assad talked it over with Annan “mechanisms” that could facilitate the ferocity in Syrian Arab Republic and said to him the success of his plan hinged on regional countries ceasing their support for the “act of terrorism” in Syria. Damascus finds fault in Arab Gulf countries Saudi Arabia and Qatar for fueling the crisis in Syria by financing the rebels.
In spite of agreement with a series of peace proposals in the past 16 months, the Syrian regime has repeatedly disregarded its commitments and instead kept going to wage a brutal clamp down on dissent. The rebels have also stepped up their attacks against government troops, dealing heavy losses among their ranks.
Annan stated his team in Syria will pursue the agreement reached with Assad.
“I also boost governments and other entities with influence to have a similar effort,” he added.
