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The BBC's Barbara Plett reports on the UN's future role in Syria, as the UN Security Council prepares to meet to discuss the observer mission.

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The Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, criticises a vote by the UN General Assembly condemning its own Security Council for failing to end the unrest in Syria.

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The UN General Assembly in New York has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the Syrian government and the failure of the major world powers to stop the violence.

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UN General Assembly President, Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser, announces the result of a vote on a resolution condemning violence by the Syrian government and the Security Council's failure to stop it.

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There has been renewed fighting in Syria ahead of a UN General Assembly vote to condemn its own failures to put an end to the unrest.

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The UN-Arab League joint special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, is leaving his post, the UN has announced