The activists said Syrian forces had killed more than 100 people and wounded hundreds of others on Tuesday in attacks on villages and heavy artillery shelling of the city of Homs and called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to stop the daily ceasefire to allow aid needed by the population strongly.
Washington has not ruled prepared for a meeting of the contact group known as the "Friends of Syria" and with Western countries and Arab opposition to President Bashar al-Assad said at the end of the matter of arming the Syrian opposition, which seeks to overthrow him.
He said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon he was looking for a candidate to serve as humanitarian coordinator for Syria, which may evolve to become a role to seek a political solution to the conflict.
The coordinating committees, local security forces killed at least 100 people in attacks on Homs and raids on villages and towns in the province of Idlib, near Turkey.
In Damascus, activists said security forces opened fire on demonstrators on Monday evening, injuring at least four, in the latest sign that the popular uprising that began 11 months ago, began to be able to the capital to undermine the alleged al-Assad that the Intifada is limited to the Syrian governorates and it acts of terrorists.
And make the seriousness of the situation and government restrictions it difficult for the media to verify accounts of activists.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it called on the authorities and the opposition to agree immediately on the cease-fire at least two hours daily to allow for aid to the civilians in the worst-hit areas such as Homs.
Committee Chairman Jacob Kllenbd in a statement: "We were in contact with the Syrian authorities and members of the opposition over recent days to request the suspension of hostilities." He called for the issuance of "an immediate decision to implement a temporary halt to the fighting for humanitarian purposes." "We should continue to be at least two hours a day in order to allow sufficient time for the staff of the International Committee of Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers Syrian Arab to deliver aid and evacuate the wounded and sick."
And prepares Western and Arab nations want Assad to step down from power to steer clear sign of support for opponents of the Assad when she meets a group of "Friends of Syria" in Tunis on Friday.
Asked a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Victoria Nuland about the current U.S. position on the issue of the Syrian military to help the opposition in the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad told reporters, she said, "We believe that a political solution to this is the best way." She added, "We do not believe it makes sense to contribute now in the intensification of a military nature (the conflict) in Syria."
However, she "But ... if we can not make the lion responds to the pressure we exercise it may be all we have to look at additional measures."
Russia supports China's reform agenda includes the Assad put a referendum on Sunday on a new constitution provides for holding multiparty elections within 90 days. Assad says that this will meet the demands for more democracy, while opponents say that the proposals trick.
Russia said it would not attend the meeting of "Friends of Syria" because the Syrian government is not represented. And Lebanon also will boycott the meeting Tunisia.
Facing Russia and China criticized Western and Arab Ariqlthma to move to the Security Council against Syria. Mahmoud Suleiman told Haj Hamad former president of the auditors and inspectors of the Ministry of Defence Accounts, which split the Syrian government in January, told Reuters in Moscow that Russian arms sales to Damascus, which amounted to about one billion dollars last year, has increased sharply since the start of the Intifada al-Assad.
In an interview with Reuters, said that he was in urgent contact potential candidates to serve as coordinator of the United Nations to Syria. The General Assembly of that last week the appointment of a person for this task. Russia says it will support the humanitarian envoy of the United Nations.
Activists said Syrian forces launched an artillery attack on Homs after prevent fighters from the opposition in control of the district of Baba Amr forces from entering.
The activist named Nader Husseini told Reuters from the neighborhood "Down with several shells every minute."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces stormed the villages in the province of Idlib in the north.
Activists said government troops backed by armored vehicles closing in on the Pope Amr since the start of the attack on the Homs on the third of February.
And belongs most of the opponents of the Sunni majority, while most of the lion draws support from the minority Alawite sect, including, raising fears that sectarian violence takes character and attracts neighboring countries.
Sources in the opposition that the tanks are spread in the neighborhood of the construction next to the Pope Amr. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a convoy of more than 50 armored vehicles were seen heading towards Homs from Damascus on Tuesday.
The heart of the uprising and Homs to the rule of Assad extended for 11 years and has a million people and is located on the highway between Damascus and Aleppo. Assad says that the Intifada, which was until recently far from the capital, the work of "terrorists", backed from abroad.
In the other group said activists in Kafr Tkharam near the border with Turkey, said the opposition fighters killed five soldiers and captured two in an ambush on a column of government troops.
The activist said in short about 32 kilometers to the south-west of Homs near the Lebanese border, said five people were killed and eight wounded when he was the northern part of the town to the heavy shelling with mortars and tanks T-72.
Abu Anas told Reuters by telephone. "People in this region are hiding in their homes and can not leave. Others are resisting. As for those who live in areas beyond fleeing the town. Some people are scared to the point they are trying to leave in any way even if they are close to the fire."
He said militants in the western city of Hama, Syria, said military and police forces and the militia set up roadblocks to isolate dozens of neighborhoods from each other.
Said Ahmed Ramadan, a member of the Executive Office of the Syrian National Council - the main opposition group - Forces loyal to Assad killed his brother, Mahmoud, when his car hit a shot in the northern city of Aleppo.
Ramadan said Al-Jazeera television that the regime was accused of Mahmoud to send food and medicine to Homs and was receiving threats every day. He added, "was wounded in the head and neck and died instantly."
Said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the meeting of "Friends of Syria" will show that the Assad regime became increasingly isolated and will provide support "to the Syrian people, the brave."
Clinton said in Mexico during a meeting of the Group of Twenty, "we're sending a clear message to Russia and China and other countries are still hesitant about the way the face of increasing violence, but so far, unfortunately, take the wrong choices."
Iran and steadfast ally of Assad. Iranian state television said on Monday that an Iranian warships docked in Syria to provide training for naval forces in Syria. Washington said on Tuesday he had no evidence on the health of the report.
Source: Reuters
