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Russia: Arab mission statements on Syria 'reassuring'

MOSCOW - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the comments from Arab League observers in Syria sent to check whether government forces have halted violence against protesters showed that the situation in the country was "reassuring".
"Judging by the public statements made by the chief of the mission M. Al-Dabi, who in the first of his visits went to the city of Homs...the situation seems to be reassuring," the ministry said in a statement on its website.
The ministry said that Moscow was counting on the team's "professionalism and impartiality".