Turkey's deputy prime minister said late on Friday that Turkey asked the United Nations (UN) and NATO to register Syria's border violations.
Ali Babacan said Turkey would take into consideration the options in line with upcoming developments, but expressed hope that Annan plan and UN resolutions would bear result in Syria.
"We hope and aim that peace, order and stability would be ensured in Syria soon," Babacan told a press conference in Washington. Babacan said Turkey hoped that massacre and use of force would end in Syria, and Syria's problems should be solved with its own domestic dynamics. Ali Babacan said today, many countries indexed their Syria policy on Turkey's discourses, and many countries were taking into consideration what Turkey was saying when shaping up their Syria policy.
 Babacan said Turkey was supporting Annan plan but some deadlines should be put to implementation of provisions of Annan plan. Annan's six-point peace plan includes demands for a ceasefire, the immediate withdrawal of heavy armour from residential areas and access for humanitarian aid. Moreover, Babacan said the Istanbul meeting of Iran and P5+1 (China, Russia, the United States, Britain, France + Germany) countries led to a decrease in global oil prices by 6-7 USD. Iran and P5+1 met in Istanbul on April 14. The next meeting is set to take place in Baghdad on May 23. (Reporting by Bariskan Unal-Mehmet Toroglu) - AA
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