(New York Times) Rick Gladstone and Neil MacFarquhar - The top UN peacekeeping official, Herve Ladsous, said Tuesday that his organization had recruited only about half of the 300-member contingent he hoped to station in Syria. He also said Syrian authorities had not yet removed their heavy weapons from population centers, as required under the cease-fire plan, and had not granted a UN request to allow the monitors to use helicopters for rapid mobility.
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