By AGENCIES ARABNEWS

TUNIS/DAMASCUS: Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby called on the UN Security Council on Friday to issue an urgent resolution calling for a cease-fire in Syria. “This conference should make practical moves and prioritize the issuance of an urgent Security Council resolution for a cease-fire,” he told an opening session of the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunis.

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki told the conference that the Arab League should send a peacekeeping force to help end President Bashar Assad’s crackdown.

“The current situation demands an Arab intervention in the framework of the League, an Arab force to keep peace and security, to accompany diplomatic efforts to convince Bashar to leave,” he said.

Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani also called that an Arab force should be created to impose peace in Syria and allow in aid. “There is a need to create an Arab force and open humanitarian corridors to provide security to the Syrian people,” he said in a speech at the “Friends of Syria” international meeting in Tunisia.

Meanwhile, the government troops shelled rebel-held areas in central Syria on Friday, killing at least four people, activists said. As government troops continued to pound rebel-held neighborhoods in the besieged city of Homs, thousands of people in dozens of towns across Syria staged anti-regime protests under the slogan: “We will revolt for your sake, Baba Amr,” referring to the besieged Homs neighborhood that has become the center of the Syrian revolt.

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Note by the editor: One person from Homs told me something, which I have not seen in any Newspaper or TV show:
Before the current (counter-)attack by the Government the rebels ‘executed’ about 300 Syrians of the Alavite community in Homs. They were handcuffed and shot. Wonder why this was not covered by any News Agency?