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.

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"All along we thought that's why they were here, " Kagame said, referring to the U.N. troops sent to monitor a peace agreement between the minority Tutsis and ruling Hutus.

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Withdrawing from Syria would ensure the safety of the team, but it could signal a loss of confidence in the hopes of a cease-fire and leave the U.N. without a way to monitor progress, the report says.

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But he said that ending the conflict there required a political solution, not a military one, and emphasized that the primary role of U.N. troops would be to monitor any cease-fire agreed upon by the warring parties.

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The U.N. observer mission is tasked to monitor the cease-fire and the peace plan.

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By last month, some unarmed U.N. observers sent to the country to monitor the purported cease-fire deal had left the country, while others were largely confined to their hotels.

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It could send a small U.N. stabilization force to Syria to as a monitor.

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U.N. members must now freeze the assets and monitor any travel by individuals and businesses linked to Iran's nuclear program.

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Meanwhile, the mandate of the U.N. observer mission that had been tasked to monitor Annan's six-point peace plan, which included a failed ceasefire, ends on Sunday.

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In addition, if U.N. sanctions are lifted, the naval maritime intercept program to monitor oil smuggling out of Iraq would not be needed.

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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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