The United Nations is concerned about “unacceptable conditions” set by Damascus for allowing aid to flow through its Bab al-Hawa crossing to rebel-held areas in northwest Syria, according to a document reviewed Friday by AFP.
A letter from Syrian authorities allowing use of the border crossing between Turkey and Syria “contains two unac-ceptable conditions,” according to a document sent to the UN Security Council from the Office for the Coordina-tion of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
OCHA said it was concerned that the Syrian government had “stressed that the United Nations should not communicate with entities designated as ‘terrorist.’“
The second condition it bridled at was that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) should “supervise and facilitate the distribution of humanitarian aid” in northwest Syria.
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United Nations humanitarian aid has not been going through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing to Syria even though the Syrian government granted a six-month extension for its use, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Friday.
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The UN spokesperson said the United Nations is talking to its partners on "modalities" and is looking at what exactly was said in the letter.
On Thursday, the Syrian mission to the United Nations sent a letter to the UN Security Council president asking that it be disseminated to all members.