Russian humanitarian aid for Syria
According to Vesti.ru, the UN Security Council held a meeting on North Africa and the Middle East. The main topic of the meeting was the conflict between the Syrian government and opposition groups. The meeting was also attended by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov.He pointed out that the Russian Federation is ready to begin discussing the UN Security Council resolution on Syria - but subject to the parties ’five points previously agreed with the Arab League: on ending the violence by all parties, on an objective monitoring mechanism, on the absence of external interference, on unhindered access for humanitarian aid all Syrians, about the support of the Special Representative of the Arab League and the UN, Kofi Annan, who is ordered to start a political dialogue between all opposition groups and the Syrian government.
But above all, as the diplomat believes, a cease-fire should be achieved in Syria. The minister emphasized that if all the parties sincerely want to stop the violence and help the civilian population, then it’s not necessary to speak about “who first started”, but about realistic approaches that would allow achieving a cease-fire immediately.
Lavrov noted that the emotional demands for regime change in Syria, unilateral sanctions imposed, which caused economic difficulties and additional social tension in the country, and, moreover, encouragement of oppositionists to anti-government confrontation (instead of facilitating political dialogue), there were calls for support armed uprising and even external intervention, is nothing more than the recipes for risky "geopolitical engineering", according to Lavrov, "leading only to the growth of confessional iqta ".
The US Secretary of State, in turn, once again called on the international community to support the approach to the Syrian situation developed by the Arab League. Earlier, the PRC and the Russian Federation voted against the version of the resolution proposed by the League of Arab States.
Hillary Clinton said that the United States took note that in Cairo, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Arab League fully agreed to end the violence, implement unhindered humanitarian access and start a political dialogue mediated by Kofi Annan and built on UN and LAS resolutions. .
“The time has come,” Clinton said, “when all countries, even those that previously blocked our efforts, rallied and supported the humanitarian and political approach developed by the League of Arab States. The world community must speak with one voice, without doubts or reservations, that the killing of innocent citizens of Syria must be stopped, and the political process must begin. ”
It should be noted that the Russian Federation was the first country to provide humanitarian aid to Syria.
The EMERCOM Information Department reported that two special flights to the capital of Syria - Damascus - delivered one hundred thirty 10- and 30-local tents, two hundred blankets, six hundred and fifty boxes of canned fish, nine hundred boxes of canned meat, two hundred forty bags of sugar, 99 boxes of dishes, a hundred sets of field folding kitchens and 680 boxes of baby food.
Recall that earlier Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reported that Russia will allocate a million Swiss francs for the work of the Red Cross in Syria. The minister noted that such a step is dictated by the value attached in Russia to helping the civilian population affected in Syria. The minister also said that Russia will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to Syria in other forms.
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