Hopes to renew the mechanism for bringing aid into Syria across the border without the approval of the Assad regime

The UN Security Council will vote tomorrow, in a special session, on a draft resolution to renew the UN mechanism for the entry of humanitarian aid into Syria through the Bab al-Hawa crossing.

Norway and Ireland announced their hope to renew the mechanism for entering aid into Syria for a year, “without the approval of the Assad regime government.”

The representatives of the two countries responsible for the humanitarian file in Syria, in the Security Council, had proposed a draft resolution to renew the delivery of aid through the Bab al-Hawa crossing for a year, and to reactivate the work of the Al-Yarubiyah crossing with Iraq, to ​​bring aid into the northeastern region of Syria.

“We hope to renew the draft resolution on humanitarian aid to Syria later this week,” Geraldine Pere Nason, Ireland’s ambassador to the United Nations, told a news conference on the sidelines of a closed-door meeting of the Security Council.

She considered that the consequences of not renewing this mechanism could not be imagined, given the great humanitarian disaster that it would leave for millions of Syrians.

She pointed out that the humanitarian file is very sensitive at the political level.

For her part, the Norwegian delegate, Mona Gul, said: “The UN Security Council must discuss many things. We are talking about millions of needy people in Syria, who need this assistance. Therefore, it is necessary to continue the entry of humanitarian aid across the border.”

She described the humanitarian file as “a matter of life or death for many people.”

The work of the UN mechanism is limited to bringing humanitarian aid into Syria through one crossing, after Russia was able to vote last year by veto on a draft resolution to enter it through three crossings.

The authorization of the United Nations to use the Bab al-Hawa crossing to enter international aid expires on the tenth of this month.