The Security Council vote came after Russia on Friday vetoed a resolution, sponsored by the West and requested by the U.N. and international aid organizations, that would have allowed delivery across the Turkey-Syrian border without interruption for a year.
, sponsored by the West and requested by the United Nations and international aid organizations, that would have allowed delivery across the Turkey-Syria border without interruption for a year.
“This vote is what happens when one member of the Security Council takes the entire international community hostage,” said Deputy U.S. Ambassador Richard M. Mills, calling Russia’s intransigence a “heartless play” that “will only serve to hurt the Syrian people.”U.N.-managed aid shipments to more than 4 million Syrians, many of them displaced by the country’s 11-year civil war and crowded into Idlib province in Syria’s northwest corner, stopped abruptly on Sunday evening, when the previous U.N.
Ireland and Norway wrote both the one-year extension vetoed Friday and Tuesday’s six-month resolution. “We have settled for six months. That’s not what we wanted,” said Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason.“Look, there are no secrets here,” she said after the meeting adjourned, in response to questions from reporters about the role played by the Ukraine conflict. “We’re dealing with a very difficult geopolitical context.
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