Putin: Protect aid access to Syria
Around 90% of the aid being delivered to Syria currently goes to regime held areas, leaving Syrian civilians in opposition-held areas without food or medicine. Too many are needlessly dying as a result.
But Australia, Luxembourg, and Jordan are planning to circulate a new UN resolution that would authorize the delivery of humanitarian aid into opposition-held areas without approval from the Syrian government. That’s 9.5 million people.
Countries will vote at the Security Council any day now, and we have no time to lose. Russia's support is key to this succeeding -- let's tell President Putin that the world is calling on him to save Syria and vote to send in the aid trucks.
Last February a UN Security Council resolution for humanitarian access - which even Russia backed - mentioned “further steps” if its demands weren't met. The world now looks on in horror at the results of this catastrophic failure -- but President Putin can be the champion that can get aid to millions of Syrians in need.
The resolution proposes aid is delivered through four essential border crossings under a UN Chapter 7 mandate, which means humanitarian convoys would be protected by UN peacekeeping forces, preventing millions of civilians from starvation.
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