But the presence of the tiny but growing U.N. observer team is having a "dampening effect" on the violence, Ladsous said.
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.
Earlier in the day, the head of the European Union Observer team, Thijs Berman, said voting was going well and there were no signs of fraud.
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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Later, an observer team from the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) was held for some 45 minutes by Zanu-PF supporters at a farm about 20km (13 miles) outside Karoi.
"This is a matter of utmost urgency for the United Nations and all efforts are in place to make sure that we get the people on the ground as quickly as possible ... apart from Damascus, we have permanently based observers in Homs, Hama, Daraa and Idlib, so this process will continue, " said Neeraj Singh, the observer team's spokesman, on Sunday.
He says the Bush administration needs to give Obama's economic team some sort of observer status at that meeting.
The team could retain its military observer capability and continue its fact-finding work, but with a limited scope in light of the violence in Syria, the report says.
Each team has a Democratic counter, a Democratic observer, a Republican counter and a Republican observer.
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Things went smoothly on Team Five until the swap of a Republican observer, according to a joint press pool report filed by Bloomberg News Service and the Sun-Sentinel.
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