It also backs the U.N. monitoring mission to ensure that the peace plan, accepted by the government and opposition groups, is being followed.
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Meanwhile, China said it will send observers to join the U.N. monitoring mission, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported, citing a foreign ministry spokesman.
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Security Council is expected to meet Saturday and vote on a resolution that would expand the size of a U.N. monitoring mission in Syria, Western diplomats said.
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Angry crowds surrounded the observers' cars and hurled stones and metal rods at the vehicles, said Sausan Ghosheh, a spokeswoman for the U.N. monitoring mission in Syria.
But both Russia and China support the U.N. monitoring mission.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, warned that while Washington supports expanding the U.N. monitoring mission, it may "not agree to renew" the mission at the end of 90 days.
Iraq also wants the United Nations to put pilots from countries other than the United States in the cockpits of reconnaissance flights over the country, which are also part of the U.N. weapons monitoring program.
The U.S. hopes the threat will "hold Saddam Hussein's feet to the fire" on compliance with U.N. requirements for inspection and monitoring of Iraq's weapons program.
Monitoring Bosnian Serb compliance Wednesday in Sarajevo were the U.N.
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