Syria says it accepts deadline to implement Annan plan Kofi Annan in Switzerland on 16 March after addressing the UN security council by videolink. Photograph: Martial Trezzini/EPA Syria has accepted a 10 April deadline for partially implementing Kofi Annan's peace plan - but it wants the same commitment from the opposition, according to Damascus's ambassador to the UN. Bashar Ja'afari said: "The Syrian government is committed, but we are expecting Mr Kofi Annan and some parties in the security council also to get the same kind of commitments [from the opposition]. A plan would not be successful unless everybody is committed to it. Annan, the UN's and the Arab League's envoy, met the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus on 10 March. Asked who had suggested the 10 April deadline, he said: "It's by common accord between our minister and Mr Kofi Annan." More follows