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UN approves monitors for eastern Aleppo

 

 

NEW YORK: -- The UN Security Council has called for officials from the world body to be allowed to monitor the evacuation of people from eastern Aleppo.

 

It also wants the safety of civilians who remain in the Syrian city to be monitored. The 15-member council adopted a French-drafted resolution that called for “all parties to provide these monitors with safe, immediate and unimpeded access.”

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-12-20

[craigt3365]

Wow.  Maybe there is hope.

 

http://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/security-council-unanimously-approves-sending-un-monitors-war-torn
 

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Today's decision comes after the Council's two most recent attempts to take action on Syria: on 8 October, Russia vetoed a resolution that would have called for an end to military flights over Aleppo; and on 5 December, a measure calling for a seven-day ceasefire in the beleaguered city failed to pass after negative votes by both China and Russia. In all, Russia has vetoed six texts on the Syrian conflict, while China has vetoed five of those six.

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As the Syria crisis enters its sixth year, civilians continue to bear the brunt of a conflict marked by unparalleled suffering, destruction and disregard for human life. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 13.5 million people require humanitarian assistance, including 4.9 million people in need trapped in besieged and hard-to-reach areas, where they are exposed to grave protection threats.

 

 

[Rimmer]

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[mettech]

Hope for what?? UN is only there to watch and do nothing but doing time in a war zone, it is a waist of money .