Citing the alarming humanitarian conditions across Syria, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator today urged fresh momentum and action to protect civilians and ensure sustained aid access “before it's too late,” including through the establishment of a weekly, 48-hour pause of fighting in eastern Aleppo, where food supplies are expected to run out next month.
“The international community has shown unity of purpose before and must show it again, before it's too late and we face the prospect of losing another generation of Syrians to conflict and misery,” Stephen O'Brien, who is also the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, said in his briefing to the Security Council.
He stressed the importance of rebuilding the momentum created in the first half of the year, in particular by the humanitarian task force of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) – consisting of the UN, the Arab League, the European Union and 18 countries that have been working on a way forward since late last year.
This must include, he said, a restoration and consolidation of the cessation of hostilities; all necessary action from the parties and their supporters to ensure safe, sustained, unhindered and unconditional access; and an immediate end to the sieges which still collectively punish hundreds of thousands of civilians mercilessly.
Across Syria, around 5.5 million people are trapped in hard-to-reach and besieged areas with little physical protection and limited access to basic life-saving assistance, he said.
Humanitarian aid has reached over one million people in besieged and hard-to-reach areas, but the enormous access challenges still exist, he stressed.
The conflict generated “gargantuan levels of suffering” for civilians, and words are not adequate to depict the grim and gruesome reality for the people of Syria today, he said...etc
un.org
25/7/16
He stressed the importance of rebuilding the momentum created in the first half of the year, in particular by the humanitarian task force of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) – consisting of the UN, the Arab League, the European Union and 18 countries that have been working on a way forward since late last year.
This must include, he said, a restoration and consolidation of the cessation of hostilities; all necessary action from the parties and their supporters to ensure safe, sustained, unhindered and unconditional access; and an immediate end to the sieges which still collectively punish hundreds of thousands of civilians mercilessly.
Across Syria, around 5.5 million people are trapped in hard-to-reach and besieged areas with little physical protection and limited access to basic life-saving assistance, he said.
Humanitarian aid has reached over one million people in besieged and hard-to-reach areas, but the enormous access challenges still exist, he stressed.
The conflict generated “gargantuan levels of suffering” for civilians, and words are not adequate to depict the grim and gruesome reality for the people of Syria today, he said...etc
un.org
25/7/16
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