Moscow Expects UN to Provide Aid to 90.000 Civilians Liberated from Terrorists in Aleppo Eastern Districts

GENEVA- Russian officials expect that the UN will provide assistance to tens of thousands of civilians liberated from terrorists in eastern Aleppo Neighborhoods.

Syrian army units and allied forces are carrying out precise operations to uproot terrorists from the eastern parts of Aleppo. The operations are carried out in parallel with a huge humanitarian operation to evacuate thousands of civilians most of them children and women from the eastern districts and to move them to safe place where they can have their requirements met.  

  “The Syrian authorities and the center for reconciliation at Hmeymim are rendering every kind of facilitation to them and have accommodated them on their premises where they receive humanitarian aid but the UN staff should also help them and we expect immediate actions on the part of the UN, especially in winter months,” a diplomatic source said, according to Itar Tass.

The source said that “it’s well-known Russia showed readiness to help the UN staff, be it the 48-hours-long or 92-hours-long humanitarian pauses, humanitarian corridors, and an attempt to deliver aid by the Castello Road last August that was disrupted by the militants, as well as an effort to organize evacuation in October, which was blocked by the local council,” the source said..

“Now that a number of districts has been taken back from the militants and, in our assessments, about 90,000 civilians remain there, it’s the high-noon moment for the UN and we expect it’ll step up efforts to render humanitarian aid,” he added.

UN officials know perfectly well that Russia always reacts positively to all the queries regarding aid to civilians, the source said.

“These almost 90,000 Syrians were liberated from terrorists,” he said. “They’ve lived through much suffering and the so-called ‘moderate opposition’ that, in fact, isn’t different from Jabhat al-Nusra has used them as a live shield. Now the UN has a duty to give assistance to them.”

“There are no impediments to the delivery of UN relief supplies to the northeastern districts of Aleppo that have been liberated from the militants – Castello Road is free and quite secure now,” the source said. “What remains to be done now is to coordinate (the deliveries) with the Syrian government, which will certainly meet the UN halfway.”

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