Earlier, he abruptly called off a United Nations humanitarian task force meeting in Geneva to protest a lack of aid convoys to priority areas of Syria this month amid new fighting.
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“Not one single convoy in one month has reached any of the humanitarian besieged areas”, de Mistura told reporters, blaming relentless fighting. The fighting is simply too intense to provide any aid.
The image of Syrian boy Omran Daqneesh that has shocked the world.
Russian warships in the past have launched cruise missiles at targets in Syria from both the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean, a show of the navy’s long-range precision strike capability.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed Russia’s readiness to establish a 48-hour humanitarian pause in the Syrian city of Aleppo, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Friday.
The UN Special Envoy also called on American opposition to ensure that it “respects the 48-hours humanitarian pause”.
While the YPG controls most of the northeast, the Syrian government has maintained footholds in the cities of Hasaka and Qamishli at the border with Turkey. They take turns bombing civilians in Aleppo before the whole world.
The YPG, or People’s Protection Units, has meanwhile prioritized carving out and safeguarding predominantly Kurdish regions of northern Syria.
United Nations deputy spokesman Farhan Haq says a 48-hour humanitarian pause in the Syrian city of Aleppo would be “a welcome first step” if all combatants agree.
Heavy lifting? Does he mean actual lifting, like the tons of rubble, bones, and bodies that have to be cleared?
Rycroft also expressed concern that Russian Federation and Iran, members of an worldwide group trying to end the Syrian war, “are deliberately prolonging this conflict rather than doing everything they can to end it and get the political transition that is so desperately needed”.
What is also alarming is the end of the quote about “those who have influence on fighting on the ground”. Russian Federation and the United States back opposite sides in the civil war.
There had been a divide in the USA intelligence community over whom the rebels actually were.
Residents in the rebel-controlled half of the city celebrated earlier this month when rebels broke a month-long government siege that had led to drastic price increases and shortages of food and fuel, trapping some 300,000 people inside the city’s battered eastern neighborhoods.
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Activists say it was filmed in the rebel-held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of the divided Syrian city.
