Annan urges Syria to halt violence in 48 hours

International agent Kofi Annan apprenticed the Syrian government on Tuesday to abjure its troops and arrest all abandon in 48 hours, adage its aggressive operations and fresh altitude to apparatus his accord plan are putting a badly bare armistice at risk.In a letter to the U.N. Security Council, acquired by The Associated Press, Annan said President Bashar Assad's government has not pulled troops and abundant aggressive accessories out of cities and towns — as his six-point plan alleged for by Tuesday.Annan, the collective U.N. and Arab League envoy, said it is capital that the Syrian government "seize the befalling to accomplish a axiological change of course" in its aggressive operations and arrest all abandon by 6 a.m. bounded time on April 12, the borderline set in his plan.It is capital that the abutting 48 hours accompany arresting signs of actual and absolute change in the aggressive aspect of the government armament throughout the country, as alleged aloft by the six-point plan," Annan said.In a letter apprehend to board associates Tuesday at a bankrupt meeting, Annan said action associates accept adumbrated that they would beam a armistice "provided Syrian armament abjure from cities.