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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Al-Assad Opens 2 Crossings For UN Aid To Opposition-Held Areas
2023-02-16
[NPASyria] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
has agreed to allow United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
aid deliveries to opposition-held areas in northwest Syria through two border crossings with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
for three months, UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
said on Monday.

Guterres welcomed, in a blurb, the presidential decision of opening Bab al-Salameh and al-Rai border crossings in the north of Aleppo Governorate for humanitarian aid.

At dawn on Feb. 6, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Syria and Turkey, killing thousands and injuring much more. The earthquake also caused immense destruction of buildings, trapping thousands under the rubble.

At least 1.414 deaths and 2.349 injuries have been confirmed in government-held areas, while 2.274 deaths and 12.400 injuries in northwest Syria. As for the areas of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), six deaths and 57 injuries were confirmed, according to statistics released by the authorities in the three regions.

"Opening these crossing points ... will allow more aid to go in faster," Guterres added.

In turn, Guterres’ front man Stéphane Dujarric told BBC Radio, that the UN will use the two crossings very soon.

"The only thing I want to assume is that people will put politics aside wherever they stand in this conflict," Dujarric added.

On Feb. 13, The coalition of civil society organizations of North and East Syria dispatched a convoy loaded with relief aid for people in Syrian opposition-held areas after a week of waiting the approval of the authorities of the Syrian opposition.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Syria: Assad forces bombed areas hit by earthquake hours after disaster
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-02-16 13:49  

#2  What is the basis for that assumption?

Lots of bad press leading to further embargoes.
Posted by: Thruter Gloluger6393   2023-02-16 09:37  

#1  "The only thing I want to assume is that people will put politics aside wherever they stand in this conflict," Dujarric added.

What is the basis for that assumption? Drugs and/or stupidity?
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-02-16 09:20  

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