Berlin, May 9, IRNA -- A German foreign ministry spokesman here Wednesday stressed his country made no decision yet on sending monitors for a UN mission in Syria.

Andreas Peschke told the Berlin-based media representatives that the German government had so far taken no decision to dispatch monitors to the Arab country.

He reiterated Germany's offer for 'technical, material and logistical support' for the UN mission aimed at upholding a fragile truce in Syria.

Peschke was reacting to a report in the weekly Der Spiegel news magazine which pointed to alleged plans by Berlin to send an unarmed 10-men monitoring team.

The German official referred also to ongoing talks with the UN on how to back such

a monitoring mission.

A force of about 60 unarmed UN military observers are currently deployed in Syria,

according to press reports.

The United Nations hopes to have the full mission of 300 monitors and a hundred civilian support staff deployed to Syria by the end of this month.

The UN's Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan said Tuesday the small number of monitors in Syria have had a calming effect that should grow as the mission fully deploy