GENEVA — The Syrian government has yet to respond to the United Nations proposed plan for life-saving aid convoys in Syria during the month of October, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday, noting that the last “cross line” convoy was on Sept. 25.
Stephen O’Brien, the UN emergency relief coordinator told Reuters that he awaited a list of green lighted destinations from the Damascus government later that day.
“We are still awaiting approval of the October plan. It was expected to be on the 30th of September, according to standards and guidelines of such things,” U.N. humanitarian spokesman Jens Laerke told a news briefing. “This has been a consistent issue for us for years, that we do not get the approvals.”
Meanwhile, the UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said the United Nations will continue to push “energetically for a political solution” in Syria and “will never abandon the Syrian people to a destiny of endless violent conflict.”
De Mistura’s office in Geneva said Monday he regretted the US-Russia push to revive a truce “did not reach a positive conclusion.”
Earlier, the US suspended bilateral contacts with Russia amid new attacks on the rebel-held districts in the northern city of Aleppo, saying Russia had not lived up to terms of a recent agreement on a truce and humanitarian aid deliveries.
