This Reuter's op-ed http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/19/syria-idUSL6E8FJED420120419 is trying to give the most up to date news on Syria. Syria and UN signed an agreement for hundreds of observers to monitor a ceasefire. The 15 member UN Security Council, which is divided between Western countries that want to "topple" Syrian president and Russia and China 'which support Assad", must agree to the proposal to send a larger observer force. Senior officials from Western countries including Brit & US met in Paris with officials from Middle Eastern officials from Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, feeling the truce was the "last hope" of avoiding civil war in Syria. Russia and China will approve a mission only under a part of the UN charter that gives Assad's government a veto over the observers mandate. The Arab League sent in monitors but didn't last an entire month feeling that they could do little as long as it's movements were controlled by Assad's forces. However, Chinese foreign Minister said Beijing was "seriously studying" participating.
Russia wants no parts of it, claiming that the West and Arab powers are failing to give due weight to Assad's argument that he is fighting Islamist militants.
Ok Russia, Assad has killed thousands of people because their Islamist Militants? I don't think that's the case...
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