UNITED NATIONS (AP) — French diplomats say the U.N. Security Council will discuss the crisis in Syria during a unexpected meeting Friday.
The French mission to the U.N. said in a Twitter posting late Thursday that the council will meet at 3 p.m. “to discuss steps to take on the situation in Syria.”
The U.N. says at least 5,400 have been killed in a Syrian government crackdown on civilian protests.
German Ambassador Peter Wittig and other European diplomats have been meeting this week with diplomats from Arab countries, including Morocco and Qatar, on a resolution that would strongly back an Arab League bid to end the crisis.
Permanent security council members Russia and China used their veto powers last fall to block an earlier European resolution on Syria.
