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U.N. to consider call for Assad to step down
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 9:40 AM EST, Mon January 30, 2012
United Nations (CNN) -- The U.N. Security Council will take up a draft resolution this week that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power.
The move follows news that the Arab League suspended a mission to monitor whether al-Assad was abiding by an agreement to end a brutal crackdown against anti-government protesters.
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil el-Araby arrived Monday in New York, where he was scheduled to deliver the monitoring mission's findings to the Security Council the following day.