'Ban said in New York on Wednesday that AL’s Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi had told him during a Tuesday telephone conversation of the plan to resume the mission and had asked for it to become a joint UN-AL operation.

"He informed me that he intends to send the Arab League observer mission back to Syria and ask for UN help," Ban said. “He further suggested that we consider a joint observer mission in Syria, including a joint special envoy.”'

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