Mob pelts US ambassador in Syria

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29 September 2011 Last updated at 12:00 GMT The US embassy in Damascus was attacked after Mr Ford visited regime opponents in Hama in July. Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have pelted US ambassador Robert Ford with tomatoes as he met an opposition figure in Damascus.

Veteran politician Hassan Abdul Azim said about 100 protesters tried to get into his office as Mr Ford arrived and then surrounded it, trapping him.

Mr Ford, who has been accused of inciting protests, was still awaiting a police escort two hours later.

Meanwhile, Syria has accused the US of inciting violence against its military.

"Recent statements from American administration officials... clearly indicate that the United States is involved in encouraging armed groups to practice violence against the Syrian Arab Army," a foreign ministry statement said.

It is thought the statement was referring to comments made by US state department spokesman Mark Toner, who said on Tuesday that it was "not surprising" that the opposition were using violence against the military.

Mr Ford has angered Damascus in the past, notably by visiting the central city of Hama with his French counterpart in July.

It led to both the French and US embassies coming under attack from supporters of the Assad regime.

International pressure

Mr Abdul Azim, who heads the outlawed Arab Socialist Democratic Union party, said the ambassador's arrival at his office on Thursday led to a demonstration.

"As soon as the ambassador came in at around 11:00 (08:00 GMT), we heard a noise outside and hostile slogans being chanted. The demonstrators tried to attack the office," he told AFP news agency.

Syria is under international pressure to stop using force to suppress protests that began six months ago.

The UN estimates that more than 2,700 people have been killed across Syria since the crackdown began.

And the UN Security Council is set to vote on a Europe-led resolution which demand an "immediate end to all violence" by the state, and threatens more sanctions against Mr Assad and his inner circle if they do not comply.

The EU and US both already have sanctions in place.

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Ambassador Susan Rice blasts GOP UN financing plan

A House GOP plan to reform of the United Nations force or face massive U.S. Financing cuts was attacked by President Obama, Ambassador of the world body today, as a misguided political.

"Defect in concept is fundamentally legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations and practice sets us back, makes no sense and does not work" in an Ambassador Susan Rice.

[Photos of abroad the Obama.]

She added that it would cut American influence in the New York Assembly and the United States in a rebellious outsider.

During a breakfast interview with reporters, sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor said rice, that is the United States working on the reform of the United Nations, long critically ineffective, anti-American body seen, which wasted money.

"The objective of the reform is one that we are working to keep track of every day of the week, but we very strongly believe that the way to do this, from the perspective of a member in good standing, who has met his obligations and is displayed as a constructive player, where our influence is considerably improved, and not as a laggard and a debtor who whine from the outside", that things are not changed, as we would like to see changed you, ", says rice in unusually sharp language." [Photos of unrest in Libya.]

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman IIeana Ros-Lehtinen, a leading critic of the UN, is pushing a plan to let the U.S. pay for what it wants to at the United Nations as a way to pressure for new reforms. Currently, about 22 percent of the United Nations or $6.4 billion from the United Nations funded the United States $ 22.3 billion budget. That is double what 10 years ago.

Choose to pay, instead of to the full amount ponying U.S. influence, would destroy, rice says.

"We can violate not our obligations under the Treaty and an à la carte approach to pay our obligations," says rice. Previous efforts to the United Nations by slashing U.S. donations, to punish, she added, "reduces our it reduces our influence, and he made it much more difficult for us to use the facility to obtain the positive results for the United States view,."

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