Stopped Aid Deliveries for Millions of People in Syria Temporarily
Published: Tuesday, Jul 11th 2023, 04:00
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The United Nations Security Council failed to reach an agreement on Monday to extend the mandate for international aid deliveries to millions of people in Syrian rebel-held areas. The vote, which was scheduled for Friday, was postponed until Tuesday morning local time, according to AFP news agency from British UN sources in New York. The future of the cross-border mechanism for deliveries across the Turkish-Syrian border is now uncertain, and aid convoys were stopped on Monday evening until UN approval is granted. The 15 members of the council had been negotiating for a compromise for days. According to diplomats, a resolution proposed by Brazil and Switzerland would extend the mandate for one year, while Russia insisted on six months. Now, negotiations are underway for an extension of nine months. According to the UN, four million people in Syria are dependent on food, water and medicine deliveries. These aid deliveries are made through the Turkish-Syrian border post Bab al-Hawa, the only route through which UN aid can be delivered to the Syrian population without passing through areas controlled by Syrian government troops. The UN mandate for this has been in place since 2014 and must be extended every six months. Damascus and Moscow, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, see the UN deliveries as a violation of Syria's sovereignty. Russia intervened militarily in the Syrian war in 2015, and since then the tide has turned in Assad's favor, with his troops recapturing a number of areas.
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