Syria Conflict
Ceasefire in Syria: helpers to distribute food
After the start of the cease-fire in Syria, the UN wants to supply more than 150,000 people in besieged cities aid. The first deliveries arrived. Thousands of people threaten to starve to death.
A convoy of aid has reached the Syrian town of Kafr Batna (archive image)
The first of a total of 50 trucks would have reached the Regime circled the place Moadamijet al-sham southwest of the capital Damascus, the UN organization for humanitarian assistance (OCHA) in Syria. “It is the best opportunity in five years for the Syrian people to achieve lasting peace and stability are now,” said the UN humanitarian coordinator in Syria, Yacoub El Hillo. The supply of food, water, hygiene items, and medications alone will not be enough to improve the situation, if there is a real political process to end the civil war, said the coordinator of the United Nations (UN). The relief supplies will reach the cities of Sabdani, Kufreja, Fua and Madaja.
Half a Million Syrians trapped
The UN human rights Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said that the population in some of the besieged places had been cut off for years of relief supplies. About 18 places and territories, with around 500,000 inhabitants surrounded, according to the UN by different parties to the conflict. Food, medicines and other urgently-needed humanitarian supplies to the trapped people were blocked Zeid, according to “repeatedly”.
al-Hussein: “The intentional Starvation of people is prohibited as a means of war clearly”
The “deliberate Starvation” of people be “prohibited as a means of war clearly”. Also sieges were prohibited al-Hussein said in Geneva. In the besieged areas of Syria are under threat, according to the UN, thousands of civilians from starvation. In the areas in which last almost half a Million people included had been, could thousands die, so al-Hussein.
If the weapon continues to rest and as a result, more and more goods, the aid reach the needy, wants the UN to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, and it instructed the parties to the conflict for the 7. March invited to peace talks. The UN coordinator El Hillo, said, it is the Chance, in the next five days of relief goods to an additional 154,000 dialysis people in government to distribute soldiers and rebels besieged areas.
Fighting against the Al-Nusra Front: Daraya, South of Damascus, with the exception of the fire break
Ceasefire is holding largely
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said in Geneva that, on the Whole, the weapons keep calm – apart from a few incidents. The US and Russia-mediated cease-fire applies to the government troops, almost one hundred rebel groups and the Kurdish fighters. Of the ceasefire, the jihadists militia “Islamic state” (IS) and the Al-Qaeda-related Al-Nusra Front. The two militias together control more than half of the Syrian territory.
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Syria: the ceasefire is holding, apparently
The High negotiating Committee (HNC), a merger of armed and civilian opponents of the Syrian government, had complained on Sunday, in writing, to Ban over violations of the ceasefire by the army of Syrian heads of state, Bashar al-Assad and its allies, the Russian air force. The French foreign Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault said in Geneva that the working group had to deal immediately with the violations of the ceasefire. The French government will see to it that the ceasefire “will tell you specifically”.
Cessation of hostilities does not “just”
Russia, in turn, had led to violations of the ceasefire by the other side into the field. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, the main measures for the cessation of hostilities to be in force. “We knew in advance that it would not be easy,” he added.
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Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has called the ceasefire violations on the “cause for concern”. All parties to the conflict were called, the fire break to be observed, he said. Stoltenberg added: “We are concerned about the strengthening of the military capabilities of Russia in Syria.” Moscow will take mainly the Syrian Opposition to target, not the jihadists militias.
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