MIDDLE EAST: NORTH AFRICA: SITUATION UPDATE AS OF 5 APRIL 2012, <SANITIZED>

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• Publication Date: April 5, 2012

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Middle East-North Africa: Situation Update as of 5 April 2012
5 April 2012
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Syria: UN officials remain focused on UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan's
six-point plan to cease hostilities. The UN Security Council today adopted a Presidential
Statement calling on the Syrian Government to comply by 10 April with the plan's requirement
to withdraw forces stationed in or near population centers and cease reinforcing or shelling those
areas. Additionally, the statement called on the onoosition to cease violence within 48 hours of
the regime's implementation of these measures, A UN advance team
today arrived in Damascus to discuss with Syrian officials the deployment of 200-250 observers
to monitor the regime's compliance following the 10 April deadline
and Annan expected a full cessation of violence from both sides by 12 April, according to his
spokesman.
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Syrian activists today claimed 38 people were killed, as
many as half were civilians, in clashes in several Syrian towns including Dar`a, and
continued shelling in the Damascus suburb of Duma.
� Annan today told the UN General Assembly that opposition groups claimed they would
call for a cessation of violence once Damascus fulfilled its commitments.
Syria's neighbors continue to wrestle with increasing refugee flows.
,622 Syrians fled to Turkey during the past 24 hours, marking the highest figure in recent
months and bringing the total number of refugees i7 Turkey to about 21,000
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