UNITED NATIONS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 24th June, 2020) The United Nations has delivered nearly 1,300 trucks with humanitarian aid to the northwest Syria this month, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said during a press briefing on Wednesday.
"We continue to reach millions of women, children and men in urgent need of humanitarian assistance through cross border operation to run out of Turkey,"� Dujarric said. "Our humanitarian colleagues tell us that since the beginning of this year more than 8,000 trucks have crossed Syria from Turkey including a record 1781 trucks in May alone. As of the 21st [of June], 1292 trucks passed into Northwest Syria from turkey this month."
Dujarric said cross border operations are necessary to meet the enormous humanitarian needs of people in northwest Syria.
"To enable this response, a renewal of the cross border authorization in Security Council resolution 2504 for the use of Bab al-Salam, and Bab al-Hawa border crossing for an additional 12 months is required," he said. "There are no alternatives to cross border operations for us."
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for more cross border aid and cross line access to sustain recent levels of assistance as well as to increase the assistance in in the northeast of Syria, Dujarric said.
Under an existing UN Security Council resolution, which is set to expire in July, humanitarian shipments are allowed to be delivered into the northwest of Syria from Turkey through Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salam checkpoints.
