UN wants to ‘work on’ expanding aid in Syria
The UN special envoy for Syria says the world body wants to expand aid deliveries to more besieged areas in the conflict-stricken country.
More than 100 aid trucks delivered supplies to several trapped areas in Syria on Wednesday. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) cooperated with the United Nations in the deliveries.
Staffan de Mistura said that the UN seeks to deliver aid to other militant-held areas as well.
"Now of course we should go beyond that. We should go far beyond that in order to be able to reach everyone in Syria who is either besieged or in need of being assisted," De Mistura told reporters in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Thursday.
He said the UN wanted to "work on" deliveries to other areas including "eastern Aleppo, even in fact in Darayya in Eastern Ghouta, many other places ... where people are in need of help."
De Mistura visited Syria to coordinate aid deliveries to several areas in the west and northwest.
Syria has pledged full cooperation with the UN and the Red Cross to deliver humanitarian aid to all civilians “without any discrimination,” including those in hard-to-reach areas.
Earlier on Thursday, the chair of a UN humanitarian task force said that the United Nations plans to make its first air drops of food aid to Dayr al-Zawr, an eastern Syrian city besieged by Daesh Takfiri militants.
The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which flared in March 2011, has claimed the lives of some 470,000 people and left 1.9 million injured, according to the Syrian Center for Policy Research.
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