Annan urges Syrian regime to lay down arms first

U.N.-Arab League agent Kofi Annan is advancement the Syrian government to lay bottomward its weapons aboriginal in adjustment to anon end the nation's crisis, an official said Friday.Annan is gluttonous abutment for his six-point accord plan for bringing an end to added than a year of abandon in Syria that the U.N. says has dead added than 9,000 people.The government charge stop aboriginal and again altercate a abeyance of hostilities with the added side," said Annan agent Ahmad Fawzi. "We are ambrosial to the stronger affair to accomplish a action of acceptable faith. ... The borderline is now.Fawzi said while answering reporters' questions in Geneva that Annan believes Syrian President Bashar Assad charge accomplish the aboriginal move. "We apprehend him to apparatus this plan immediately," the agent said. "Clearly, we accept not apparent a abeyance of hostilities and this is of abundant concern.Syrian activists say beginning angry erupted Friday amid soldiers and insubordinate fighters in the country's arctic Idlib province.