NSTworld Syria cross-border aid to end Friday if UN Security Council fails to break deadlock
Since 2014, the United Nations and aid groups have crossed into Syria from Turkey, Iraq and Jordan at four places annually authorized by the council. Its approval is needed because the Syrian government did not consent to cross-border deliveries.
“To put it very simply, there is no alternative to reaching the people we need to reach in the northwest and northeast without the cross-border” operation, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Thursday. In a compromise bid to win Russian support, Western powers have proposed authorizing three crossing points - two from Turkey and one from Iraq - for six months, instead of one year. The council is set to vote on that draft resolution on Friday, diplomats said.
Moscow also rejected a Western request to renew the current cross-border aid operation for another two weeks to allow for further negotiations among council members, diplomats said.
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