UN extends Syria aid deliveries from Turkey by six months
Al JazeeraMAR 20 2022
Humanitarian need in Syria is the highest it has ever been - making a 12-month renewal imperative to provide greater operational and ethical reassurances. Despite the passage of this resolution, greater humanitarian security hasn't been achieved on behalf of the Syrians who desperately need help and the politically motivated opposition to such provision by the likes of Russia and Syria is morally unjustified.
Only if western nations facilitate an open and substantive dialogue will the whole of the Security Council be able to assess whether the Syrian cross-border humanitarian aid mechanism (CBM) is working. Russia will follow the implementation of its resolution closely to ensure cross-line deliveries to the whole of Syria are enhanced and sanctions on the nation are lifted, given the disruption caused by COVID. If the UN satisfies these provisions, Russia will be open to supporting extensions.