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.
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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But the presence of the tiny but growing U.N. observer team is having a "dampening effect" on the violence, Ladsous said.
The fate of the U.N. observer mission was unclear after the vetoes.
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The most high-profile aspect of the latest international efforts is the U.N. observer team, many of which arrived ahead of Mood earlier this month.
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.
But the presence of the tiny but growing U.N. observer team is having a "dampening effect" on what has been an atmosphere of "appalling" violence, said U.N.
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The head of the U.N. observer mission in Syria, Maj.
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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.
Robert Mood, the U.N. chief military observer in Syria, said the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad had committed to Annan's peace plan.
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