No plan B for Syrian unrest beyond Annan plan: UNSMIS head

Urging a Syrian-led political process to end the country's unrest, Herve Ladsous said on Thursday that the only way to start the political process is to stick to the Annan's plan and that there was "no plan B" beyond Annan's plan.

"We will try our best to contribute towards finding the solutions, but that of course the solutions, especially the political solution, must exist in the framework, in a process that will be Syrian-owned and Syrian-led," Ladsous said during talks with Syrian officials in Damascus.

    He also urged all Syrian parties to implement Annan's plan to stop the deadly violence.

He also defended the decision to reduce the number of UN observers in Syria, saying that "we found ourselves with too many people and not enough to do".

Half of the 300 UN military observers deployed in Syria to oversee Annan's peace plan left the country after the Security Council on July 20 extended the mission's mandate for another month.

Syria has been the scene of deadly unrest since mid-March, 2011 and many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.

    Last week, four top Syrian military and security officials were killed in a terrorist bombing at the headquarters of the National Security in the capital.

The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing protesters. But Damascus blames ''outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups'' for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.