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    UN orders immediate Syria cease-fire: 'The deadline is now'

    </HEADER>By msnbc.com staff and news services

    Syrian President Bashar Assad must order a cease-fire immediately, a spokesman for UN chief envoy Kofi Annan said Friday, telling reporters: "The deadline is now".

    "We expect him to implement this plan immediately," Ahmad Fawzi, a spokesman for Anna, told a news briefing in Geneva, adding that Assad should not wait for opposition groups to make the first move.

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