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Syria: UN offers help as Homs assault continues – live updates
• UN offers to join the Arab League monitoring mission• More killed on the sixth day of the assault on Homs• Pentagon draws up contingency plans9.06am: China’s foreign ministry has said a Syrian opposition delegation visited the country this week and met a deputy foreign minister, Zhai Jun, Reuters reports. It was the first contact reported by China in the wake of escalating violence in Syria and Beijing’s veto in the UN of a draft resolution on the country.
published date:Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:12:00 GMT