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UN leader calls for three-month observer mission in Syria

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UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called for a three-month observation mission inSyria with 300 monitors saying there was a "chance for progress" despite the government's failure to implement a peace plan.

Ban said in a report to the UN Security Council, obtained by AFP, that the proposed mission "a would greatly contribute to observing and upholding the commitment of the parties to a cessation of armed violence in all its forms."

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012