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Under the deal, the Assad regime agreed to release detainees, withdraw the army from urban areas, allow free movement for observers and media and negotiate with the opposition.
"It's very good that they have demonstrated the muscle that is necessary," Sweden's Carl Bildt said of the Arab League.
Ministers said the continuing bloodshed in Syria, despite the hopes raised by the Arab peace plan, called for international action.
"The time has come to see how we can better protect the population. I hope the Security Council will finally take a position," said France's Juppe.
"The European Union will continue to press for strong UN action to increase international pressure and urges all members of the Security Council to assume their responsibilities," the joint statement said.
Abdulla said the UN should explore the dispatch of observers or a UN humanitarian mission.
But there was no talk of a Libya-style intervention to protect the population.
"This is a different situation from Libya. There is no United Nations Security Council resolution and Syria is a much more complex situation," said Britain's Hague.
China meanwhile pressed Syria to implement the peace plan while Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned Syria's suspension as "incorrect."
Syria on Monday reiterated that it would not budge despite its suspension.
"Today there is a crisis in Syria which pays the price of its strong positions. Syria will not budge and will emerge stronger ... and plots against Syria will fail," said Foreign Minister Walid Muallem.
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Abdulla says the head of the United Nations is speaking out against a rebel alliance in Sudan that says it aims to topple the government of President Omar al-Bashir.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement Monday he condemns the reported establishment of the Sudan Revolutionary Front or SRF. He called on all sides to “refrain from the use of force” and for Sudan and South Sudan to “recommit” to negotiating a settlement on the issues that remain tense between them.
The SRF includes Darfur's most powerful rebel group — the Justice and Equality Movement and the two branches of Sudan Liberation Army. It also includes the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, a branch of the rebel group that fought for the South during Sudan's long north-south civil war.
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The group says it will use “civil political action and armed struggle” to overthrow Mr. Bashir's National Congress Party. In a communique, the SRF says the Bashir government is weakening and will soon implode like what it calls other corrupt regimes in Africa.
Sudan's government has been fighting rebels in Darfur since 2003. Clashes with rebels in the southern border states of Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan erupted earlier this year.
Mr. Bashir and his allies have accused newly-independent South Sudan of supporting the rebels, a charge South Sudan denies.
In his statement Monday, Secretary General Ban expressed “deep concern” over the escalation of rhetoric between the two neighbors, and he condemned Sudan's recent bombing of a refugee camp.
South Sudan became independent in July.
Mr. Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and genocide in Darfur.
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