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UN Considers Syrian Offer To Use Bab Al-Hawa Border Crossing For Aid Delivery

UN considers Syrian offer to use border crossing for aid delivery

The UN is considering an offer from the Damascus government for the world body to use the Bab al-Hawa border crossing to deliver aid into northwest Syria through Turkey, a spokesman said.Stephane Dujarric, chief spokesman for Secretary-General ...

UN considers Syrian offer to use Bab al-Hawa border crossing for aid delivery

Bab al-Hawa crossing: Last humanitarian lifeline in northwestern Syria at risk of closure

Copyright © 2021 Enab Baladi. Enab Baladi is a nonprofit charitable 501(c)(3) organization, Tax ID. 46-3313735 Bab al-Hawa crossing: Last humanitarian lifeline in northwestern Syria at risk of closure A volunteer distributing cross-border aid coming through the Bab al-Hawa crossing (Anas al-Khouli / edited by Enab Baladi) Zeinab Masri – Hussam al-Mahmoud – Diana Rahima “What would we do if aid was cut off? Should we steal? I cannot do that! No aid means no food or work.” With these words, Mohammed al-Ahmed, a displaced living in a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in northwestern Syria, pointed out to Enab Baladi the sole option left for him in case cross-border food and humanitarian aid was cut off, if the Bab al-Hawa crossing, on the Syrian-Turkish border, closes. Al-Ahmed confirmed that he would never resort to such an option despite necessity.    

Middle East (Syria, Chemical Weapons Programme) - Security Council Open VTC

Description Nearly eight years after the Security Council first mandated the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons programme, the senior United Nations disarmament official today described only limited progress towards declaring that dossier closed, as delegates continued to voice divergent views about the neutrality of the global non-proliferation architecture itself. “At this stage, the declaration submitted by [Syria] cannot be considered accurate and complete,” said Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, who provided her latest briefing to the 15-member Council in a video conference meeting this morning. Outlining developments in advancing the implementation of Council resolution 2118 (2013) regarding the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons programme, she said those included the deployment to Syria of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ (OPCW) Declaration Assessment Team, to conduct a twenty-fourth round of consultations.

Syria's Chemical Weapons Declaration Cannot Be Considered 'Accurate, Complete', High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Tells Security Council - Syrian Arab Republic

Syria’s Chemical Weapons Declaration Cannot Be Considered ‘Accurate, Complete’, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Tells Security Council Format SC/14458 Nearly eight years after the Security Council first mandated the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons programme, the senior United Nations disarmament official today described only limited progress towards declaring that dossier closed, as delegates continued to voice divergent views about the neutrality of the global non-proliferation architecture itself. “At this stage, the declaration submitted by [Syria] cannot be considered accurate and complete,” said Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, who provided her latest briefing to the 15-member Council in a videoconference meeting this morning. Outlining developments in advancing the implementation of Council resolution 2118 (2013) regarding the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons programme, she said those included the deployment to Syria of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ (OPCW) Declaration Assessment Team, to conduct a twenty-fourth round of consultations.

Syria's Chemical Weapons Declaration Cannot Be Considered Accurate, Complete, Director-General Tells Security Council - Syrian Arab Republic

Syria’s Chemical Weapons Declaration Cannot Be Considered Accurate, Complete, Director-General Tells Security Council Format SC/14380 Syria’s initial declaration of chemical weapons on its territory cannot be considered accurate and complete, the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said during a Security Council videoconference meeting on 11 December, while Damascus and its allies insisted that those stockpiles had been confirmed all destroyed by 2014. “To date, considering the gaps, inconsistencies and discrepancies that remain unresolved, the declaration submitted by Syria still cannot be considered accurate and complete,” said OPCW Director-General Fernando Arias during the regular monthly briefing on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013), which called for the full implementation of the Organisation’s 27 September 2013 decision containing special procedures for the expeditious and verifiable destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons.