Russia vetoes a UN resolution on 12-month extension of cross-border aid to Syria from Türkiye with the current mandate set to expire on Sunday
The UN said last week that the first 10 years of the Syrian war, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians.
The resolution drafted by Norway and Ireland sought a one-year extension for humanitarian aid deliveries from Türkiye’s Cilvegozu border crossing to Bab al-Hawa in Syria’s northwest. “We need to reach a solution in the immediate term, a solution which renews the mandate for cross-border aid. There is simply no time to waste. The Syrian people are counting on us,” Ireland's UN representative Geraldine Byrne Nason said after the vote.“It is unfathomable that one security council member, Russia, put their own political interests above the humanitarian needs of the Syrian people,” she said.
Thomas-Greenfield said renewing the cross border mechanism for six months fails to give aid workers the assurances needed to sufficiently meet needs on the ground, resulting in needless suffering.
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