The UN human rights office
will send observers to Syria's neighboring countries to collect evidence and
document atrocities in the strife-torn state, the deputy rights commissioner
said Tuesday.
"We will be sending
monitors for information collection and documentation of the violations and
atrocities in the border areas in the neighboring countries later this
week," said Kang Kyung-wha, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Kang was speaking during a
UN Human Rights Council hearing on the situation in Syria.
On Monday, Paulo Pinheiro,
who was leading a team of investigators dispatched by the council to probe
violations in Syria, told a news conference that "a negotiated settlement
is the only way" to stop the violence.
"An increase in
militarization and the supply of arms are not the right response," he
said, after presenting his report to the council.
Asked how he intended to
bring about the dialogue, Pinheiro told the council Tuesday that "there is
no magic solution."
"The most urgent ...
is to support the ... process of mediation of Kofi Annan," he said.
"We need a patient
mediation process to finish with this crisis," he added.
Annan, who is the
international mediator on the Syrian crisis, said he expected a response from
Damascus on Tuesday on proposals he presented to the Syrian regime to try to
halt a year of bloodshed.
The former UN chief arrived
in Turkey on Monday after failing to secure an accord in talks with President
Bashar al-Assad aimed at ending the escalating violence that has killed
thousands of people since March last year.
Pinheiro and his team had
given Pillay a list of Syrian military and political officials suspected of
crimes against humanity.
They said they had
documented a widespread and systematic pattern of gross violations by Syrian
forces, "in conditions of impunity,” since March 2011.
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