In a sign of increasing frustration with Syria’s violations of a cease-fire agreement, France will push to have 300 United Nations cease-fire observers in Syria within two weeks instead of several months, Foreign Minister Alain Juppé said Wednesday. He said France would also try to gain support for a “Chapter 7” resolution at the United Nations unless Damascus complies with the terms of a peace plan by early May. Chapter 7 allows the Security Council to authorize actions that can ultimately include the use of military force, a provision that Russia and China oppose. A small advance team of observers is already in Syria, but violence has continued.
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