Security Council adopted a resolution renewing its Syrian observer mission for 30 days Friday.
That draft measure extends the observer mission in Syria for a final period of 30 days.
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The U.N. observer mission is tasked to monitor the cease-fire and the peace plan.
On June 16, the U.N. observer mission suspended its patrols in Syria because of increased fighting.
Therefore, the U.N. observer mission is not substantively different from that found in the Arab League's observer mission.
But in a statement distributed later, the Arab League called on Syria to agree by Friday to the observer mission.
The resolution also called for renewing the 300-member U.N. observer mission for 45 days after it was suspended because of violence.
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Syria has agreed to extend the mandate of the Arab League observer mission by a month, Syria's state-run news agency Sana reports.
The fate of the U.N. observer mission was unclear after the vetoes.
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On Wednesday, the head of the EU observer mission, Alojz Peterle, said Kenya had so far demonstrated "an impressive commitment to democratic elections".
In acting thus, the assembly ignored demands by, among others, a European Union observer mission which called for the council to be clearly independent.
Marwick Khumalo, who heads the Pan-African Parliament's observer mission, says it was clear that the poll could not be fair if the violence went on.
The observer mission had also come under attack on several occasions.
Commonwealth observer mission head Festus Mogae, the ex-president of Botswana, said he was not surprised that the electronic counting system failed, Associated Press news agency reports.
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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.
Arab League ministers are meeting in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the crisis in Syria, following the league's decision to suspend its observer mission in the country last month.
It said it was ending its observer mission, sent in December but suspended in January amid criticism that it was ineffective in the face of continuing violence.
The clear implication is that the Commonwealth should wait until after the Zimbabwean presidential election and act on the basis of the report of its own observer mission.
Though suspended, the observer mission still has some value because it has investigated recent violent incidents, such as one in Treimseh last week, according to a European official.
The head of the U.N. observer mission in Syria, Maj.
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Last month, the United Nations wound up the observer mission that had been tasked with monitoring the ceasefire in Syria under the six-point peace plan negotiated by Mr Annan.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for the initial three-month observer mission to be expanded to 300 monitors in 10 locations, and asked the Security Council to authorize the expanded number.
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In a separate development, Western nations are pressing the UN to threaten Damascus with sanctions as it considers renewing the mandate for its observer mission in Syria which expires on 20 July.
Tudjman wants the Europeans to extend their non-military observer mission, now limited to Slovenia, to his republic as a sign that foreign countries will help Croatia stand up to the Yugoslav army.
On Saturday, Mr Muallem hit out at the group after it asked the UN to contribute to the proposed observer mission, calling it an invitation "for foreign intervention instead of a call to avoid one".
In a news conference a few hours before the extension to the observer mission was announced, Mr Muallem had drawn a distinction between the mission and the new Arab League peace plan announced on Sunday, he adds.
Back in January in Bangladesh, its suspension of its election-observer mission and warning that supporting a rigged poll might jeopardise the army's involvement in UN peacekeeping operations played a large part in the cancellation of the vote.
An observer mission from the Organisation of American States said that the campaign for Peru's presidential election was flawed, in part because of media bias, but noted that opposition candidates and voters were keen to take part.
Our reporter says the head of the EU's observer mission stopped short of calling the elections "free and fair" and took an interpreter to task during a news conference when he used he used this phrase in a translation.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Thursday that the United States doesn't want the U.N. unarmed observer mission in Syria to be extended past its August 19 mandate, but that it is open to some other kind of U.N. presence.
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