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Thursday, March 17, 2016
UN looks to Russia for more help with Syria aid
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA UN official says that despite the Russian troops’ drawdown in Syria, the mission is looking to for continued help from Russia on aid deliveries in the war-torn country.
Jan Egeland, supervisor of U.N. humanitarian aid shipments, says he hopes Russia will remain as “instrumental” in helping convoys get through to besieged areas as it has been up to now.
He says that Russia helped “in many places” where convoys had problems getting through. He noted a case in Moadamiyeh, near Damascus, when a convoy was stuck at a checkpoint for over 30 hours and “Russia helped us getting through.”
Egeland, who is the humanitarian aid adviser to the UN’s Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura, spoke to reporters after a meeting of his task force in Geneva on Thursday.
— AP
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