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Moroccan advance team leader Colonel Ahmed Himmiche, a member of a UN monitors team tasked with monitoring the UN-backed ceasefire in Syria, speaks to the press in Damascus on April 19, 2012. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called for an expanded UN ceasefire observation mission to be sent to Syria even though he says President Bashar al-Assad has failed to end the violence there