Russia vetoed Friday during the UN Security Council vote on a draft resolution submitted by Norway and Ireland to extend the mechanism for the delivery of humanitarian aid across the border to Syria without Damascus’ consent for one year, and Moscow accepted only a six-month extension.
The authorization expires Sunday, and it has been in effect since 2014 and allows the transfer of aid through the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border for more than 2.4 million people in the Idlib region (northwest), which is under the control of opposition groups.
Thirteen of the 15 countries that are members of the Security Council supported the draft resolution. This time, China chose to abstain from the vote.
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Western countries have buried the mechanism for cross-border aid to
Syria by voting against Russia’s draft resolution envisaging a six-month
extension of this mechanism, Russian First Deputy Permanent
Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky said on Friday.
"Those
who did not support our draft have demonstrated their real attitude to
the needs and hopes of Syrians. <…> You proved that today having
buried the cross-border aid mechanism for good," Polyansky said at a
Security Council meeting.
"I don’t think that anyone in Syria
would suffer from that, whatever you might say. You still have
possibilities to supply terrorists entrenched in Idlib," he said.
"You had a choice and you have made it. Now, this page has been turned over once and for all," he stressed.
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Российская делегация при Совете Безопасности ООН использовала право вето по западному проекту резолюции о продлении механизма трансграничной помощи правительству Сирии, передает ТАСС.
ReplyDeleteПо данным агентства, китайская сторона воздержалась при голосовании, остальные члены Совета Безопасности ООН полностью поддержали проект резолюции.
Уточняется, что документ резолюцией, подготовленный Ирландией и Норвегией, предусматривает продолжение действия механизма еще на протяжении года – до июля 2023 года.
Ранее посол России в Китае Андрей Денисов заявил, что эффективность дискуссии и работы Совбеза ООН снижается из-за деструктивных шагов стран Запада.