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After a week of disagreements and seven votes on Saturday, the UN Security Council finally passed a resolution tabled by Germany and Belgium to allow a year of assistance at the Bab al-Hava border crossing.
The resolution was supported by 12 of the 15 members of the UN Security Council, and Russia, China and the Dominican Republic abstained.
Assistance through the Bab al-Hava border crossing on the Syrian border with Turkey will be available until July 10, 2021. This will enable the continued provision of much-needed humanitarian aid to the several million Syrians living in the rebel region from Idlib, which is not controlled by the Syrian regime.
European countries and the United States wanted aid to continue through two border checkpoints, but succumbed to Russia, a key ally in the Syrian regime, which for several weeks demanded that the Bab al-Bahn border crossing be phased out. Salam.
During the war in Syria, which started in 2011, at least 500,000 people died. persons. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is now regaining control of approximately two-thirds of the country’s territory.
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