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Mr. Annan also stressed the importance of the full implementation of the six-point plan, which he put forward in March this year.

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Reports say the Council was briefed in a closed-door session by Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous as well as by video-link by General Robert Mood, head of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS).

The UN's purpose is; to maintain international peace and security in accordance with the principles and purposes of the United Nations.

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The UNSMIS also confirmed that artillery and tank shells were fired at a residential neighbourhood, killing almost hundreds of civilians.

UNICEF is outraged at the latest killing of 32 children - under the age of 10 - confirmed by United Nations observers, and the wounding of hundreds more in the village of Houla, near Homs. They were among more than 90 killed.

UNSMIS reported its observers have been carrying out encounters similar to today's meeting in other cities across Syria, with the most advanced being in Homs and Khan Sheikhoun.

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The peacekeeping chief met with both government and opposition groups in Damascus to boost cooperation for the second phase of the observer Mission.

Reports say military observers on the ground has an overall calming effect in their areas of deployment in the Middle Eastern country.

'There were no casualties among the observers, but several Syrian soldiers were injured and taken to hospital,' the spokesperson, Ahmad Fawzi, said in response to media questions in Geneva.

Kofi Annan stressed that it is clear that the presence of the observers serving with the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) has had a calming effect in some situations.

She cites that there are existing refugees, Palestinian refugees, totaling about 500,000 inside Syria as well as a hundred thousand Iraqi refugees inside Syria.

However, the United States welcomes the positive statements from various Syrian opposition figures and groups about this new mission, understanding how desperate the Syrian people are for assistance and, ultimately, for political change.

Mr. Annan's plan calls for an end to violence, access for humanitarian agencies to provide aid to those in need, the release of detainees, and the start of an inclusive political dialogue.

The United States seeks every avenue to get humanitarian aid to those affected by the violence in Syria.

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