Kofi Annan says plan could be last chance to avoid civil war

Syria is fully committed to the United Nations peace mission inside the country, and is not on the fringe of civil war, a senior Syrian diplomat said.

"The more observers on the ground the better for us, because (UN-Arab League envoy) Kofi Annan will see the reality through the observer's eyes, not through some security members' eyes who want to politicize the mission," Jihad Makdissi, spokesman of the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told China Daily.