Russian Foreign Ministry: The first phase of aid delivery through the communication lines has succeeded, and we hope to complete the process

The Russian Foreign Ministry considered that the first stage of humanitarian aid entering Idlib governorate through the contact lines succeeded, and it hoped that the operation would be completed in a timely manner.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement: “The first relief shipments were transferred from Aleppo Governorate to the city of Sarmada, north of Idlib, on the thirtieth of last August, including (9600 food baskets),” and pointed out that 2,700 food rations are scheduled to be delivered to the de-escalation zone until the middle of this month.

She pointed out that the procedure of bringing aid through the lines is one of the results of the first operation to implement Security Council Resolution (2585), which stipulated the need for such aid to reach all Syrian territory from Damascus through the lines of contact.

She added, “It is important to put in place a reliable mechanism for distributing aid to those in need to ensure that it does not fall into the hands of extremist groups,” as she claimed.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called for the continuation of international efforts to secure the arrival of humanitarian supplies to various Syrian territories through the lines of communication, as she put it.

And last Monday, 3 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid provided by the World Food Program entered Idlib governorate, through the Miznaz crossing, west of Aleppo, while yesterday 12 similar trucks entered the area, which the area activists considered an attempt to legitimize the Assad regime and to show the eagerness to deliver humanitarian aid.
To civilians in Idlib governorate.

For its part, the Salvation Government justified the reason for the entry of aid from the areas of the Assad regime into the province, saying: “The operation comes within the framework of transferring the warehouses of the World Food Program from Aleppo to Idlib.”

Angry and denouncing popular reactions continued in northwestern Syria to the entry of humanitarian aid from the areas of the Assad regime into the region, and considered it an attempt to alleviate the economic crises that the latter suffers from and an attempt to appear capable and keen to deliver humanitarian aid to the affected people of the region who were displaced by his “crime.”