THE AUSTRALIAN
From: AFP March 28, 2012 6:57AM
Syrian forces bombard Homs
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al- Assad continue their assault on the battered city of Homs in an effort to quell unrest . Travis B ...
WESTERN nations have given a sceptical welcome to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's acceptance of a UN-Arab League peace plan, as the UN said the death toll for the uprising has passed 9,000.
"Violence on the ground has continued unabated," Robert Serry, a UN Middle East peace envoy, told a Security Council meeting.
"Credible estimates put the probable death toll since the beginning of the uprising one year ago to more than 9,000. It is urgent to stop the fighting and prevent a further violent escalation of the conflict," Mr Serry added.
The Security Council discussed the Middle East after UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan announced that Mr Assad has accepted his six-point plan, which includes a commitment to halt violence and allow a two hour humanitarian pause to fighting each day.
Activists said there had been new deaths in Syria despite the response to Mr Annan and concerns were raised in Security Council consultations over reports that Syrian forces had crossed into Lebanon to an area where Syrian opposition members have taken refuge, diplomats said.
Mr Annan called on the Syrian government to "put its commitments into immediate effect." Western powers said Syria's actions now will be a test of its attitude to international calls to halt killings.
US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Mr Annan's announcement was "an important step."
"But as with all things with the Assad regime, the proof will be in the actual action that he takes," Ms Nuland told reporters in Washington.
"We will be looking for him to take immediate action to begin implementing Annan's proposals, starting with silencing his guns and allowing humanitarian aid to go in," Ms Nuland said.
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague also said Mr Assad's acceptance of the plan could be "a significant first step" towards ending the deadly crackdown on the opposition.
"But only if it is genuinely and seriously meant," Mr Hague said in London. "This has not been the case with previous commitments the regime has made.
"The key will be concrete implementation that brings a cessation of all hostilities and leads to a genuine political transition," he added.
"We will continue to judge the Syrian regime by its practical actions not by its often empty words," Mr Hague declared.
Germany's UN ambassador Peter Wittig also urged caution.
"Syria has in the past a history of credibility gaps," Mr Wittig told reporters.
The Security Council passed a statement last week which called on the Syrian regime to halt violence and the use of heavy weapons. "That we have not seen on the ground," said Mr Wittig, who added that Syria's action now "will be the litmus test whether they comply with that."
Morocco's UN ambassador, Mohammed Loulichki, the Arab representative on the Security Council, said: "I hope it will be the beginning of some dynamic that will trigger good news for the Security Council."
Amid a new burst of international diplomacy on Syria, UN leader Ban Ki-moon will go to the Arab League summit in Baghdad this week and a Friends of Syria meeting in Turkey on April 1, officials said.
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