Jaafari also said the government is expecting armed opposition groups to end violence.
White said the armed opposition has grown in power and includes growing numbers of defectors and civilians called the Free Syrian Army as well as jihadist groups.
This kind of well-armed opposition has not always been around.
Mr Fawzi said the former UN secretary general's six-point peace plan had so far been "relatively respected" by both the government and armed opposition, but that he was "aware that we don't have a perfect situation".
The administration insists that its decisions were right, not least because American troops might not have saved Mr Aristide anyway: it had tried to arrange a peace deal but the armed opposition had grown too strong for compromise.
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The BBC's Barbara Plett, in New York, says Mr Annan told the closed session that Syria had said it was not ready to pull troops and heavy weapons out of the cities unless the armed opposition laid down their weapons too.
In addition, Mr Kabila's men have clumsily blocked efforts by Sir Ketumile Masire, a former Botswanan president chosen to mediate by the Organisation of African Unity, to prepare the ground for a dialogue between the government and its armed and unarmed opposition.
"Both sides called on the Syrian government and all armed groups of the opposition to immediately agree to daily humanitarian pauses in order to allow ICRC and Syria's Society of Red Crescent access to the wounded and other civilians who need to be evacuated, " the statement read.
Armed forces spokesman Shahinul Islam said the opposition leader left the house on her own, in accordance with the court order.
It is sounding out representatives of the armed rebels, and the unarmed political opposition, to see if they might be willing to join Mr Kabila in a new transitional government.
Russian diplomats have made scant efforts to meet with Syrian opposition figures and Moscow seems to accept Damascus' portrayal of the opposition as a group of armed criminal gangs, according to a Western official familiar with the Russian thinking.
Not surprisingly, when word that a legally binding agreement was again in the offing finally came to the attention of responsible figures in the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and armed services in October 2000, their opposition to the draft accord was strong and virtually unanimous.
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Its ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, acknowledged fighting continues, but he blamed that on opposition groups he said were being armed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, which currently holds the presidency of the U.N.
Nelson Mandela, the new mediator for Burundi , met government and opposition leaders in Tanzania, and appealed for the armed rebels to be included in the peace process.
He has capitalised on opposition to a deal among some sections of Turkey's highly influential armed forces.
The opposition meetings in Istanbul come two days after a top military defector said armed rebel groups have aligned under the leadership of the Free Syrian Army.
We even spoke with Zelaya's first cousin and Zelaya's own Defense Minister, Edmundo Orellana, who resigned from the cabinet because of his opposition to Zelaya's constitutional reform and the ouster of the chief of the armed forces.
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