UN Security Council passes plan to deploy Syria monitors

Source: BBC

The UN Security Council has passed a resolution authorising the deployment of an advance team of monitors to Syria to oversee the ceasefire there.

A small group of observers has been poised to leave for Syria as soon as a resolution is passed. Correspondents say they could leave within hours.

The vote comes as a BBC reporter says the ceasefire appears to be in danger of collapsing in some parts of Syria.

In Syria's third biggest city of Homs, government forces have been pounding some quarters with tanks and rocket fire. Activists say at least 17 people have been killed there and in other incidents, including at a funeral in Aleppo, where several people were reported shot dead by security forces.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17715354

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Apparently the monitors will have no more power than the observers from the Arab League last December. Russia and China approved this mission though so perhaps their observations will be more difficult to ignore.