Hasaka,(ST): The UN Resident Coordinator in Syria, Omran Reda said that the problem of cutting drinking water off Hasaka city and its countryside is being discussed at the highest levels at the United Nations’ offices in New York and Geneva.
He added that he is in continuous contact with the UN Secretary-General AntónioGuterres and the UN Special envoy for Syria Gher Pedersen in order to continue exerting international pressure to return pumping Water to Hasaka city.
During a phone call with Hasaka Governor, Ghassan Halim Khalil, Reda said that the UN efforts centered on two tracks; the first is pumping water to the city as quickly as possible, and the second is to ensure sustainable solutions that end the suffering of citizens amid the crisis of water supply that has been repeated for 15th time since October 2019.
Hasaka governor, for his part, affirmed that drinking water crisis in Hasaka is continuous in light of the Turkish occupier’s procrastination in re-pumping water from Alouk station, calling on the international community to put pressure on the Turkish occupier and its mercenaries and make it pull out of Alouk station.
The city of Hasaka and its Western countryside have been suffering from the lack of drinking water (forcibly cut off by Turkey)for the twelfth successive day amid complete international silence by the international organizations to this horrible crime.
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