The WHO chief said Sunday that Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad had voiced openness to more border crossings for aid to be brought to quake victims in the country’s rebel-held northwest.
DAMASCUS, Syria –
“The compounding crises of conflict, Covid, cholera, economic decline and now the earthquake have taken an unbearable toll,” Tedros said after visiting Aleppo and witnessing the devastation first hand. The single border crossing open to shuttle aid from Turkey also saw its operations disrupted by the quake.
But it has long been contested by Damascus and its ally Moscow, who see it as a violation of Syrian sovereignty.
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