Annan, the U.N. and Arab League special envoy to Syria, invited top diplomats from the five permanent members of the U.N.
After months of violence, Arab League-U.N. envoy Kofi Annan weeks ago helped broker what he hoped was a cease-fire.
It came a day after Kofi Annan announced his resignation as the U.N. and Arab League special envoy to Syria.
Washington is supporting U.N. and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's peace initiative, which calls for a cease-fire and a political solution.
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Al-Sharaa headed meetings with the former U.N. and Arab League point man on Syria, Kofi Annan, and international officials visiting Syria.
Shaaban reiterated a comment made by other Syrian officials, that Damascus still holds hope that the peace plan put forth by Arab League-U.N.
The mission's job is to monitor U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan that never got off the ground.
The cease-fire went into effect April 12 and is part of a six-point peace plan negotiated by U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan.
It has authorized up to 300 monitors in Syria to monitor a cease-fire and the six-point peace plan of U.N. and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.
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But a spokesman for Annan, a U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy, said Friday that it will take some time for the plan to take hold.
"Iraq fully supports the joint U.N. and Arab efforts in order to reach a political solution to the deepening crisis in Syria, " al-Maliki said in a statement issued by his office.
The U.N. and Arab League special envoy to Syria, Annan is visiting leaders in the region to find ways to implement his six-point peace plan, an initiative that has yet to gain traction.
Afterward, the two leaders issued a statement calling for "an immediate cessation of all violence" and expressing support for efforts by U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan to broker a peace deal.
The Syrian government and the opposition agreed to pull their forces from cities by Tuesday as part of an agreement brokered by Kofi Annan, the former U.N. secretary-general who now serves as the U.N. and Arab League special envoy on the Syrian crisis.
Yesterday, in response to a call for action by the Libyan people and the Arab League, the U.N.
Arab states had backed the resolution, hoping the U.N. would be able to muster the necessary leverage to resolve the crisis after the Arab League had failed to do so.
Pronk accused Sudan's army of violating U.N. resolutions by mobilizing Arab militias in Darfur.
Arab League Secretary-General Amre Moussa said there was no discussion of deploying Arab troops in Iraq before a new U.N. resolution and a sovereign Iraqi government are in place.
Both Israel and the Arab countries have endorsed the crucial and unavoidable U.N.
Russia's role in forging peace is key because Moscow has confounded Western and Arab nations by blocking tough action in the U.N.
U.S. officials sought Arab League support before agreeing to push for a U.N.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported Sunday that a delegation of U.N. observers was visiting the al-Khaldiyeh neighborhood of Homs.
Syria did so because it recognizes Annan only as a U.N. representative and doesn't want to engage the Arab League.
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Therefore, the U.N. observer mission is not substantively different from that found in the Arab League's observer mission.
Sudan's Arab-led government on Sunday ordered the special representative in Sudan of U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday that he had taken note of the Arab League leaders' suggestions, including requests to increase the number of U.N. observers and to set a time limit for the effort.
Kofi Annan, the former U.N. secretary-general who is now special joint envoy to Syria for the United Nations and the Arab League, will fly Saturday to Damascus, an Arab League official said.
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