Muslim Brotherhood Urges U.N. to Deem Syria Plan a Failure

Syria's exiled Muslim Brotherhood on Friday urged U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to acknowledge that Damascus had failed to honor a peace plan and to suspend its membership of the world body.

"We ask Ban Ki-moon to announce that Assad's government has failed to honor the peace plan and to declare the plan finished ... at a time when dozens of innocent people are dying," the group said in a statement issued in Britain.

It also called for "the freezing of Syria's membership in the international organization, until a transitional government that represents the Syrian people's will is established."

The Brotherhood, which is banned in Syria, said the United Nations should sever all ties with President Bashar al-Assad's government, which it said was made up of "hooligans that have taken over the state and Syrian society."

It denounced the international community's "silence" in the face of crimes committed by the Damascus regime and accused it of "complicity in the genocide of the Syrian people."

More than 300 people have been killed in strife-torn Syria since a wavering peace plan came into force April 12. The aim of the plan brokered by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is to bring an end to nearly 14 months of bloodshed.

Ban on Thursday demanded that Damascus honor its commitments "without delay," after U.N. ceasefire observers on the ground in Syria reported that Annan's six-point peace plan was being violated.

The U.N. says more than 9,000 people have died since a revolt erupted against the regime in March 2011, while non-government groups put the figure at more than 11,100 dead.