A spokesman for Kofi Annan, UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy, said Friday that two more cease-fire observers will arrive in Syria on Monday and the United Nations hopes to have 30 observers in the country next week.

Ahmad Fawzi told reporters that there are currently seven observers working on the ground, who have visited a lot of locations during the past five days, contacting with Syrian military, political officials and UN humanitarian colleagues and have also been preparing the ground work for the arrival of the larger group of monitors.

The observers are reporting on a daily basis to the Joint Special Envoy and through him to New York, Fawzi said.

He said they will be ready to deploy a full mission of up to 300 observers very rapidly as soon as it's authorized by the UN Security Council.

"We feel that it is going to happen sooner or later because it must happen. The situation on the ground is not good. There are casualties and incidents every day," Fawzi said.

He said the preliminary agreement signed with the Syrian government Thursday guarantees the monitors freedom of movement and communication.

"There was, what we believe to be, a genuine desire on the Syrian side to conclude this agreement and to support deployment of monitors," he said.

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