UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is set to travel this weekend to Moscow and Beijing to discuss the situation in Syria, his spokesman said Friday, adding that a team sent to Damascus has returned

UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is set to travel this weekend to Moscow and Beijing to discuss the situation in Syria, his spokesman said Friday, adding that a team sent to Damascus has returned.
  
The team is back after "three days of intensive talks with Syrian authorities on urgent steps to implement" Annan's proposals. "Annan and his team are currently studying the Syrian responses carefully, and negotiations with Damascus continue," added the spokesman.
  
Annan's plan calls for a UN-supervised halt to fighting with the government pulling out of violence-hit cities, a daily two-hour humanitarian truce and access to all areas affected by the fighting.
  
His spokesman said Annan has no plans at the moment to return to Damascus, and that negotiations were ongoing by telephone. As negotiations were "at a delicate stage," the former UN chief does not wish to make their content public.