The UN Security Council on Friday met behind closed doors to discuss a draft resolution on Syria amid a surge in violence across the crisis-laden country that have claimed the lives of dozens of people this week.

Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations?Bashar Ja'afari spoke to reporters after the UN Security Council closed-door meeting on Syria on Friday.

Morocco, the only Arab country on the Security Council, presented the draft resolution to the council at the closed meeting, which kicked off at around 15:10 p.m. EDT on Friday, despite Russia's reported opposition saying the draft is unacceptable because it does not take Moscow's position into account.

The draft was jointly drawn up by Arab states with Britain, France and Germany,?supporting the Arab League's call for President Bashar al-Assad to hand over?power to a deputy.

Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said in Moscow on Friday that the draft, which is circulated in the Security Council on Friday afternoon, contains "no fundamental consideration for our position" and is missing "key aspects that are fundamental to us," reports said.

Also on Friday, UN Secretary-Geneal Ban Ki-moon, who is in Davos, Switzerland, called on the Security Council to speak with one voice on Syria, and urged Damascus to listen to the aspirations of its people, Xinhua reported.

On Monday, Syria rejected a proposal by Arab League foreign ministers that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria hand over power to a deputy and set up new unity government, saying that the plan was part of a "conspiracy against Syria."

The secretary-general of the Arab League, Nabil al-Arabi and Quatari Prime Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani are to head to New York on Saturday to seek support for an Arab plan on Syria, reports said.

Syria insisted that the turmoil in the country is plotted by terrorists and foreign-backed armed gangs. The Syrian government said that more than 2,000 army and security personnel were killed during the unrest, while the United Nations put the death toll in the country at more than 5,000.

Syria was plunged into turmoil in Mid-March last year when anti- government protests broke out. Damascus signed the Arab League observer protocol on Dec. 19, 2011 in Cairo after the Arab League threatened to take the issue to the Security Council.

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