New York-SANA
Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, announced that Moscow will present a draft resolution in the UN Security Council on the transfer of humanitarian aid to Syria on the 19th of this month.
Russia Today quoted Nebinzia as telling reporters that "it is not permissible to transfer humanitarian aid to Syria without the approval of the Syrian government," considering that the draft resolution submitted by Germany, Belgium and Kuwait in this regard is unacceptable.
He explained: "We were never pleased with the so-called cross-border humanitarian operations, but we did this by taking into account the conditions on the ground in Syria," adding: "Now the situation in Syria has radically changed and the state controls most of the country."
He pointed out that Russia has prepared a draft resolution that provides for extending the work of the current mechanism for the transfer of humanitarian aid for a period of half a year and not for a year as required by another draft resolution submitted by Germany, Belgium and Kuwait, indicating that the Russian project provides for the maintenance of two out of the four crossings to transport aid.
"We hope that we can adopt this clear and simple decision on the 19th of this year when the previous decision expires," Nipenzia said.
It is noteworthy that the UN Security Council adopted Resolution No. 2165, which authorized humanitarian convoys heading to Syria to cross the border. Its validity is extended every year, and this mechanism is still in place since July 2014.
After adopting Resolution 2165, Syria affirmed that the humanitarian side constitutes one of the most important aspects of the crisis in it, and the Syrian government has adopted new mechanisms and initiatives to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to its people, and has welcomed all previous efforts to help it reduce this humanitarian burden on its people, stressing that all measures, no matter how large, will remain cosmetic. And it falls short of the required performance if the root causes underlying the suffering of the Syrian people, mainly through the activities carried out by armed terrorist groups, are not addressed in addition to addressing the negative effects incurred by the Syrian citizen as a result of the coercive measures Of unilateralism imposed by the governments sponsoring terrorism on the Syrian people that.