(8 Feb 2012)
1. Two members of the Arab League monitoring team greeting each other in lobby of Sheraton Hotel before leaving Damascus
2. Female member of Arab League delegation from Sudan waiting in lobby of hotel before leaving
3. Mid of luggage in lobby
4. Pan of team member walking through hotel lobby towards door
5. Observers waiting outside hotel for vehicles to take them to airport
6. Two Sudanese members of the monitoring team waiting for transport
7. Observers putting luggage in minibus outside hotel
8. Observers getting into cars
9. Mid of cars before leaving
10. Wide of cars taking observers from hotel
STORYLINE:
Six more monitors from the Arab League's observer mission left Syria on Wednesday.
The monitors - three from Sudan, two from Somalia, and one from Egypt - made no statements on departing the Sheraton Hotel in Damascus.
Their withdrawal follows the departure from the observer mission last month of more than 50 monitors from Gulf Arab states.
It comes days after Syrian allies Russia and China vetoed a Western- and Arab-backed resolution at the United Nations that would have condemned the regime's crackdown on dissent and called on President Bashar Assad to transfer some of his powers to his deputy.
The Syrian government had rejected the Arab plan as intervention in Syria's internal affairs.
Repeated efforts by the Arab League and Russia to broker talks have been rejected by the Syrian opposition, which refuses any negotiations while the crackdown continues.
The withdrawal of six more monitors from the Arab League's observer mission comes as forces loyal to Assad continue to pounded the opposition city of Homs.
The violence in Syria has led to the most severe international isolation in more than four decades of Assad family rule, with country after country calling home their envoys.
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