US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, center, and EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton right, pose with diplomats at the ministerial meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, June 7, 2012. The United States and its allies in Europe, Turkey and the Arab world have agreed to work on a political transition plan for Syria, hoping to persuade President Bashar Assad's powerful ally Russia to join a broadened diplomatic effort to ease the embattled leader out of power, a senior U.S. official said. (AP Photo)
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, center, and EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton right, pose with diplomats at the ministerial meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, June 7, 2012. The United States and its allies in Europe, Turkey and the Arab world have agreed to work on a political transition plan for Syria, hoping to persuade President Bashar Assad's powerful ally Russia to join a broadened diplomatic effort to ease the embattled leader out of power, a senior U.S. official said. (AP Photo)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Thursday, June 7, 2012 purports to show the bodies of Syrian children in, Mazraat al-Qubair on the outskirts of Hama. Syria on Thursday denied as ?absolutely baseless? claims by opposition groups about a new massacre in the central Hama province in which government forces allegedly killed dozens of people, including women and children, blaming rebels for the killings. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says U.N. monitors were shot at trying to get to the scene of the latest Syrian massacre.
The U.N. chief told the General Assembly on Thursday that the unarmed observers were initially denied access to the scene in central Hama and "were shot at with small arms" while trying to get there. He did not mention any casualties.
Ban said each day in Syria sees more "grim atrocities" and for many months it has been evident that President Bashar Assad and his government "have lost all legitimacy."
Ban said any regime that tolerates killings such as last month's massacre of more than 100 civilians in Houla and Wednesday's attack in Hama "has lost its fundamental humanity," and he condemned "this unspeakable barbarity."
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