Opinion | Russia deprives Syrians of UN aid
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Today, the 10th of July, the UN mandate for delivering aid into NW Syria through Bab Al Hawa crossing point expires. This comes at a time when the United Nation Security Council failed to come up with a plan for the cross-border mechanism.
The Syrian humanitarian crisis the civilians are experiencing in Syria is the outcome of the absence of a political solution. It has become clear how Russia is manipulating the cross-border mechanism as it keeps using humanitarian aid as a bargaining chip to gain concessions in its attempts to politically float the Assad regime.
Russia and the Assad regime attempt to use the UN as a cover to manipulate donor countries’ funds and use it in the reconstruction of the Assad regime’s institutions and prisons under the guise of early recovery packages, in a clear circumvention of international sanctions and conditions for reconstruction.