The international community is enhancing diplomatic efforts to put pressure on Syria to end the violence immediately.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) plans to adopt on Tuesday, local time, a presidential statement calling for “additional measures” to end the violence in Syria unless Syrian President Bashar Assad takes six-point steps to end the violence as proposed by UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan.

France on Monday submitted to the Security Council a statement supporting Kofi Annan’s proposal for peace efforts in Syria.