Security Council Authorizes Deployment of Ceasefire Monitoring Team to Syria
Syrian Permanent Representative to the UN, Bashar Ja’afari, addresses the Security Council after its unanimous adoption of resolution 2042 (2012), authorizing the deployment of a ceasefire monitoring team to Syria. The resolution also calls for the full implementation of Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan’s six-point proposal, and expresses the Council’s intention to establish a UN supervision mission in Syria if the ceasefire is sustained.