The new head of the UN ceasefire monitoring mission Major General Robert Mood has arrived in the Syrian capital of Damascus today, and urged both Assad regime forces and rebels to stop attacking one another.
Rebels claimed at least 25 people were killed nationwide today, far from a complete ceasefire but still a meaningful reduction from the level at the height of the civil war. The UN is expected to deploy up to 300 monitors in the coming weeks.
Whether that actually happens or not is not clear, however, as Kofi Annan is due to deliver a “state of the ceasefire” report on May 5, after which French officials anticipate pushing for a full scale UN invasion of Syria.
Not that the call for invasion is likely to go anywhere, as both Russia and China would presumably veto such a bill. The question is what comes after this veto, and whether it will mean the West will turn against the monitoring mission if it can’t sell a war.
I was at the first confused by appointment of Gen. Mood to lead this mission because he abandoned his first team of observers in Syria and also because he is a NATO soldier. However, his first statement as a head of UN Syria monitoring mission looks promisingly since he asked also terrorists (or freedom fighters) to contribute to peace in Syria, not only the government. It was to my knowledge the first time any UN official asked for equal responsibility from both sides (and that means also their supporters and friends) of the conflict. Let us cross fingers for this mission so it keeps its neutrality.
If the soviets had sent armed killers into the USA to shoot at communist demonstrators in order to create hate against US government, delivered weapons including heavy weapons and dynamite for permanent bombings of gas pipelines, railways, power plants, water supply etc. then your are happy when a soviet general as UN monitor boss comes and urges "both sides" to stop violence, while his killers constantly are bombing and he is delivering weapons to them and asking for a soviet intervention or bombing campaign?
Don't be naive and whatch the complete list of countries tehy already have crashed down using this method:
war against Syria planned long ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPEYwfs4_RY
their "revolution providers": http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=lpXbA6yZY-8
Syria- lies in NATO media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy0e3ZnNfVs
Assad interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0SQkzNTiaU
Huge pro-Assad demonstrations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9gqq-FFgJM
He'll be gone very shortly for questioning the West's approach to Syria.
This half moon have lots of dark side of his shining all over his talks about Syria, his not worthy in being the UN general secretary. Beside all that he needs to point out the progress made by the Syrian government and point at those who dont want to have any peace in the region specialy Saudis and UAE tyrants regimes. His another "diplomat" hired ny US and EU doing their part adding to ongoing problems in middle east, beside that he needs to just go back to his planet. .
What a fraud: Obviously an US Major General Robert Mood, this sound as if one of the attacking side has been choosen again as "independend monitor" (remember US-OSCE-Boss Wiliam Walker, who organized the war igniting massacre-fake of Racak in Kosovo !) , "urged both Assad regime forces and rebels to stop attacking one another." The Assad government is not interested to have military actions in its country, but the USA; Arab dictatorships of Saudis+Qatar do.
This ceasefire has the only goal to write a new chapter in this theater play of "we tried everything to avoid war".
Why killers who came from outside adn a few dumb islamists convinced by the bloddy hate propaganda against Assad should be saved and not imprisoned or otherwise stopped by government forces??? THIS Ceasefire ALREADY IS A FOREIGN INTERVENTION.
The UN monitors will be again infiltrated by CIA staff as in Yugoslavia, where they distributed satellite phones, strategic advice and even radio locators to mark important bombing targets for the US intelligent bombs.