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Annan calls for 'immediate' Syria ceasefire
Annan says "deadline is now" for Syrian troops to halt their assaults, as diplomatic momentum is put at risk.
March 30, 2012
(AL JAZEERA) Geneva - Kofi Annan, the joint UN-Arab League envoy, expects Syrian government forces to implement an immediate ceasefire as part of a peace plan to halt more than a year of violence, his spokesman has said.
"We expect him to implement this plan immediately. Clearly we have not seen a cessation of hostilities on the ground. This is our great concern," Ahmad Fawzi, the spokesman, told a news briefing in Geneva on Friday.
Annan will soon visit Iran, Syria's key regional ally, for talks on the crisis, although no date has been announced yet, Fawzi said.