SANA: U.N. Observers Visited Homs and Met its Governor
A team of United Nations observers monitoring a shaky ceasefire visited the central Syrian province of Homs on Saturday, state news agency SANA reported.
"A team of international observers visited the province of Homs and met the governor," SANA said.
The city of Homs, the provincial capital, has been at the forefront of an anti-regime uprising and borne the brunt of artillery attacks of a government campaign to crush armed opponents.
Earlier on Saturday, the opposition Syrian National Council appealed the observers, who arrived last weekend, to go immediately to the city "to try to stop the crimes of the regime."
It claimed that Bayyada and another neighborhood, Khaldiyeh, "are the target of barbaric shelling and an inhumane embargo."
But while Homs has been a regular target of bombing, an activist there, Khaled Tellawi, told Agence France Presse the bombing had stopped and that "the area was calm" on Saturday, possibly indicating an imminent visit by observers.
Monitors say more than 200 people have been killed in Syria since a shaky ceasefire to which the government and rebels committed themselves went into effect on April 12.
Source: Agence France Presse
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