UN will resume aid to Syria after ‘understanding’ with Damascus FMTNews FMTWorld
The aid deliveries from Turkey stopped in July when Western powers and Russia failed to agree on extending a UN Security Council mandate.
After weeks of diplomacy, a Syrian government letter sent to the UN this week and seen by Reuters did not mention the rejected conditions. UN secretary general Antonio Guterres welcomed an “understanding” with Damascus on using the Bab al-Hawa crossing for six months, his deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said on Tuesday.
The UN has been using Bab al-Hawa since 2014 with Security Council authorisation. Syria rejected the operation as a violation of sovereignty. It also said that his office, not the ICRC and SARC, held the mandate to oversee operations in northwest Syria and that the ICRC and SARC did not have sufficient presence in that region to take over such humanitarian work.
A spokesman for the UN’s humanitarian operations agency OCHA said the agency was “ready to resume aid operations through the Bab al-Hawa crossing as soon as possible”.
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