Syria: UN unable to deliver aid to regime-besieged areas

10/03/2016| IslamWeb

Although Syria's cessation of hostilities is in effect, the UN has still been waiting for permission from the Syrian regime to deliver humanitarian aid to six besieged towns, the UN said on Wednesday.

"Six remaining places require government permission," said Jan Egeland, special advisor to the United Nations special envoy for Syria.

Egeland was speaking following a meeting of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) Task Force in Geneva.

He said that so far the UN has reached 10 besieged towns in Syria to deliver humanitarian aid following the cessation of hostilities.

Other than the remaining six areas besieged by the Syrian regime, the UN could not reach Deir ez-Zor, which is under siege by ISIL.

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A convoy of humanitarian aid waits in front of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) offices before making their way into the regime besieged towns of Madaya, al-Zabadani and al-Moadhamiya in the Damascus countryside, as part of a U.N.-sponsored aid operation, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016.

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