Russia refuses to deliver aid from Iraq to northeast Syria

The Russian ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday described the proposal to reopen a border crossing from Iraq to northeast Syria to provide humanitarian aid as “not feasible”. He also refused the fate of the only currently operated border crossing from Turkey in To reveal the northwest of the country, which is under the control of the opposition.

A draft resolution of the UN Security Council proposes help through die to send both border crossings, but Vasily Nebenzia said in a press conference that Russia is only discussing die Possibility of further aid deliveries via the Bab al-Hawa border crossing to Idlib in northwest Syria. He declined to say whether Russia would vote to leave it open or veto to close it.

Trucks wait at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border in Idlib governorate (Reuters archive)

Trucks wait at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border in Idlib governorate (Reuters archive)

Russia has come under massive pressure from the United Nations, the US, Europeans and others, die warn of dire humanitarian consequences for more than a million Syrians if all border crossings are closed.

Nebenzia commented on one last Friday in the Security Council in The draft resolution that was circulated to keep the Bab al-Hawa crossing open and to reopen the Jarubiya crossing from Iraq in the Kurdish-controlled northeast, which was closed in January 2020.

At the beginning of the aid deliveries in 2014, three years after the outbreak of the conflict in Syria, the Security Council approved four border crossings. But in January 2020 Russia threatened to veto the council to initially restrict aid deliveries to two border crossings in the northwest and then to close another one in July last year.

Hence can die Today aid can only be delivered via the Bab al-Hawa crossing, and die Approval to him for die Use of humanitarian aid bringing in expires on July 10th.

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