UN Chief Ban Ki-moon urged an action against Syria on Monday, as the international organization announced it would start training Arab League observers working in Syria within days.

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon urged an action against Syria on Monday, as the international organization announced it would start training Arab League observers working in Syria within days.

"The situation has reached an unacceptable point," Ban said on the sidelines of a summit in Abu Dhabi.
"I sincerely hope that the Security Council will handle this in a sense of seriousness and gravity and in a coherent manner," he said, urging member states to overcome their differences.

Russia and China vetoed a Western draft UN resolution in October that would have condemned Assad's regime.
On Monday Russia distributed a new draft resolution in which Western diplomats said there was no apparent change in Moscow's position opposing strong UN action.

On the other hand, a UN spokeswoman said that the United Nations has agreed to start the training in Cairo.
A formal request for help has been made by the Arab League after Arab foreign ministers meet this weekend.
The spokesman Vannina Maestracci told Agence France Press that the training will be carried out by staff of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

"At the request of the League of Arab States, the OHCHR has agreed to train observers and will deploy to Cairo to do this training," a UN spokesman said.

A report by the observer mission is to be handed over to Arab League ministers on Thursday and the ministers will meet on Saturday in Cairo to decide the future of the mission.