Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari is now on a travel restriction while in the United States.<br/> <br />Ja'afari must remain within 25 miles, or 40 kilometers, of New York City under a new State Department mandate.<br/> <br />State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki defended the move.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON JEN PSAKI SAYING:<br/> <br />"As you know, and probably do know, UN delegates of certain countries are required to notify us or obtain permission prior to travel outside of a 25-mile radius, so this is not something that is out of the realm of what we've done before."<br/> <br />Similar restrictions also apply to Iranian and North Korean delegates.<br/> <br />Ja'afari has been a regular at UN meetings on his country's three-year-old civil war, which has seen more than 130,000 people killed.
