BEIRUT, Lebanon — The secretary general of the United Nations gave a dark appraisal of the Syria conflict on Thursday, accusing its government of failing to carry out nearly every element of the peace plan that took effect a week ago, obstructing work by an advance team of cease-fire monitors and doing nothing to alleviate an intensifying humanitarian crisis on the ground.
The appraisal, made at the United Nations by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, came as new pressure on the Syria government was looming from Paris, where a meeting of the Friends of Syria coalition of countries seeking to aid the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s government called the peace plan the last hope to resolve the crisis.