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HARDtalk: Major General Robert Mood 

Ex-UN observer: 'Level the playing field' in Syria

27/03/2013 GMT

Major General Robert Mood 

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Stephen Sackur speaks with Major General Robert Mood, former UN mission Head in Syria.

Major General Robert Mood led the ill-fated UN supervision mission in Syria in 2012. What went wrong then and do the Syrian people deserve better from the world's major powers now?

What could and should the outside world be doing as Syria sinks ever deeper into civil war? Has inertia and division within the international community condemned Syria to a slow and agonising collapse? HARDtalk speaks to Norwegian Major General Robert Mood, who led the ill-fated UN supervision mission in Syria last year. What went wrong then, and do the Syrian people deserve better from the world's major powers now?

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