New York-SANA
Russia and China today used a veto against a draft resolution in the UN Security Council on the transfer of humanitarian aid to Syria that exploits the humanitarian situation there and violates its sovereignty.
Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, said that his country voted against the draft resolution put forward by Germany, Belgium and Kuwait on the transfer of humanitarian aid to Syria across the border because it is unacceptable, stressing that it is not permissible to transfer humanitarian aid to Syria without the approval of the Syrian government.
Nebenzia pointed out that the Russian draft resolution that was frustrated by Western countries on the transfer of humanitarian aid provides for extending the work of the current mechanism for transferring aid for half a year and not for one year as required by the project submitted by Germany, Belgium and Kuwait, indicating that the Russian draft provides for the maintenance of two crossings from the origin of the crossings Four to transfer aid.
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 that it has adopted new mechanisms and initiatives to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to its people. It also 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 fall short of Fulfilling the required if the root causes underlying the suffering of the Syrian people, mainly represented by the activities carried out by terrorist groups, are not addressed in addition to addressing the negative effects incurred by the Syrian citizen as a result of unilateral coercive economic measures Imposed by the governments sponsoring terrorism on the Syrian people.
