Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad continued to pound the country's cities with artillery fire, despite Assad's earlier assurances that hostilities in his conflict-ravaged nation would cease in accordance with the terms of a peace plan brokered by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Annan appeared to admit defeat April 10 when he conceded in a brief to the Security Council that the gestures toward peace expected from Assad's regime had "yet to be issued."
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