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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, began today to consider a request by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to allow access for UN humanitarian assistance to the city of Dera.

The request was made ​​during a telephone conversation on Wednesday between the two leaders, said in a statement the office of the official spokesperson for the world organization.

In this exchange, the head of the UN reiterated the need to address the humanitarian needs of the population affected by the unrest in Syria and demanded permission for the entry of humanitarian personnel in that country.

The secretary general welcomes the intention expressed by President Al-Assad to consider this request regarding the city of Dera, stresses the note said.

Adds that during the conversation, the head of the UN insisted on an immediate cessation of violence and arrests of demonstrators in Syria and demanded an investigation into the deaths recorded during the clashes.

Moreover, Ban Ki-moon urged the Syrian president to a speedy and full implementation of reforms and measures announced by the government and stressed the importance of taking a genuine dialogue in the country.

Last week the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), postponed the approval of a proposed aid to Syria for the five years 2012-2017 by the situation.

Reportedly, these resources were focused on economic growth, institutional consolidation, administrative and legal, prevention and disaster management, the fight against HIV / AIDS and environmental control.

Libyan insurgents want to Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi is a "legitimate target" for attacks on NATO and that the dictator "is eliminated " by any means, said today in Rome Shamama Mahmud, head of communications for the Libyan rebels have their stronghold in the city of Benghazi.

Shamama, who appeared at a news conference in Rome on the eve of the meeting of the Contact Group on Libya, adding that this is the position of the National Transitional Council (CNT) in Benghazi.

The head of communications for the rebels directed Libyan Gadhafi reminded the Libyan army troops have killed civilians, women and children "is the head which is responsible for all this, " he said.

The Contact Group on Libya, composed of 22 countries in the coalition, will meet in Rome with the intention of designing a road map, maintained by the United Nations with a view to a ceasefire leading to the initiation of dialogue with members of the regime of Colonel Gaddafi.

The Contact Group will also address the supply of "instruments of self-defense " to the National Transitional Council and humanitarian aid to the population.

For its part, the CNT announced yesterday that Rome asked that it be provided access to 3,000 million dollars of funds from Muammar al-Gaddafi who have been blocked in several countries.

The Rome summit will be held after May 1, Saif al Arab, the youngest son of Muammar Qadhafi, and three of the grandchildren of Libyan leader killed in a NATO bombing.

The nationalist Ollanta Humala and Congresswoman Keiko Fujimori have a virtual dead heat in the preferences to the second round of the presidential election in Peru, according to a survey released today by the portal elcomercio.pe.

The survey, conducted by Ipsos-support at the request of U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley, said that Humala has a 39% to 38% support and Keiko.

Also indicates that 14% of those surveyed said they will vote blank or vitiate and 9% have not yet decided which candidate to support.

Ipsos-Support a previous survey released last April 24 in which said Humala received 42% support and 36% Keiko.

The survey released today by elcomercio.pe was between 23 and 30 April this year to 1.983 people in 24 departments, with a margin of error of 2.2% and a confidence level of 95%, depending on sheet.

Surveys carried out by different companies in all cases show a marked downward trend for Humala, who is moving ever closer Fujimori legislator.

In the first electoral round on April 10, Humala was the most voted candidate with 31.6% of the vote, while Fujimori was second with 26.5%, which means that the nationalist is failing to keep that advantage.

Efe said Alfredo Torres, director of Ipsos-Apoyo, this is because the sympathies of the poorer classes have hardly changed since the first round, while the middle classes, especially voters in Lima, voted mostly for the right candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, are shifting their preferences to Fujimori.