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May 31, 2012

Syrian Rebels Give Assad Deadline to End Violence 
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Syrian rebels have issued a 48-hour deadline for the regime of President
Bashar al-Assad to comply with an international peace plan or face
renewed fighting. The Free Syrian Army says it will give Assad's forces
until early Friday morning to adhere to the agreement brokered by
international envoy Kofi Annan. Speaking in Turkey, U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Syria is at risk of a full-scale
civil war.

Ban Ki-moon: "Joint special envoy Mr. Kofi Annan has expressed his
concerns that we may have reached a tipping point in Syria, that the
massacre of civilians of the sort seen last weekend could plunge Syria
into a catastrophic civil war, a civil war from which the country would
never recover. I demand the government of Syria act on his commitment
under the Annan peace plan."

 

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