The United Nations is already planning for a peacekeeping force in Syria should a ceasefire in that country take hold and pending a Security Council mandate.
UN Peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said that it was too early to say how many peacekeepers might be deployed in such an eventual force.
UN and Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Sunday as part of his push for a ceasefire between rebels and government forces for the Eid al-Adha holiday, which begins on October 26.
“I would confirm that, of course, we are giving a lot of thought to what would happen if and when a political solution or at least a ceasefire would emerge,” Ladsous told reporters at the UN.