1. As a concession to Taylor, it was agreed that the NPFL would be allowed to send unarmed observers to the buffer zone. 2. Farah Aydid was reported to have agreed to the deployment of UN guards and unarmed observers, but had rejected the sending of armed soldiers. 3. Bassuener also fears that unarmed observers on the ground in Kosovo might be used as human shields by Serbs should NATO threaten future strikes. 4. PBI organizes volunteers from around the world to serve as unarmed political observers. 5. The Palestinians garnered more sympathy from other Security Council members, with France proposing an unarmed observer force that would document any violence. 6. The unarmed observers, caught in the middle, could do little. 7. Three unarmed U.N. observers and two armed peacekeepers were hurt in scuffles with Hezbollah forces, according to the commander of the U.N. peacekeeping force. 8. Unarmed observers who now monitor the warring parties could be drawn back into more defensible positions. 9. Pending a comprehensive Mideast peace settlement, the force will try to maintain the cease-fire using a combination of unarmed observers and armed infantry units, Annan said. 10. A U.N. plane was strafed by a rebel patrol recently, and a firefight kept unarmed U.N. observers pinned down for hours. |