Nebenzia calls on international community to help Syrian people without any discrimination or politicization

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, called on the international community to help the Syrian people “without any discrimination or politicization,” stressing that the current humanitarian situation in Syria “does not provide an appropriate context for discussions” about extending the mechanism for cross-border aid delivery.

During a session of the UN Security Council on Wednesday, TASS news agency quoted Nebenzia as saying: It is difficult to get rid of the feeling that the efforts being made to justify the lack of an alternative to the mechanism for transporting aid across the border are more than what is being done to organize supplies across the line of contact.

Nebenzia pointed out that the biased position of Western countries on this file has not changed during the last half of the year.

Nebenzia noted that the situation regarding cross-border aid transfer is neither clear nor transparent despite 3 rounds of informal consultations, stressing that the arguments in favor of extending the cross-border aid transfer mechanism are not convincing, because the lack of an alternative to it is fabricated. He pointed out that this situation is caused by the absence of any work by Western countries.

Inas Abdulkareem