Vietnam calls on int’l community to maintain humanitarian aid for Syria
Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnam Mission to the United Nations, has called on the international community to continue providing humanitarian aid for Syria and emphasised the necessity for a consensus on the humanitarian aid issue.
Delegates discuss at UN Security Council's regular briefing on Syrian issue (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnam Mission tothe United Nations, has called on the international community to continueproviding humanitarian aid for Syria and emphasised the necessity for a consensuson the humanitarian aid issue.
Addressing the UN Security Council regularbriefing on the Syrian humanitarian situation on June 29, Ambassador Quy sharedhis concern with the council’s member states over the worrying situation inSyria.
He urged the Western Asian country, the UNand partners to continue stepping up cooperation to make relief goods reachhands of Syrians.
The long-term solution to the currentcrisis is to boost a comprehensive political measure for the Syrian issue onthe basis of respecting international law and the UN Charter.
Mark Lowcock, UN Under-Secretary-Generalfor Humanitarian Affairs, said that prices for food, medicine, fuel and otheressentials are soaring, while the Syrian pound has lost more value in the pastsix months than in the first nine years of war.
Inside Syria, more than 11 million peopleneed aid and protection, Lowcock said, adding that more and more infants andchildren show signs of malnutrition, as mothers say they must rely on foodpackages because they cannot afford shopping in regular markets.
In the statement, Mark Lowcock said that “awhole generation of children has known nothing but hardship, destruction anddeprivation”.
He told participants that the UN and itspartners are exerting efforts in humanitarian relief and support Syria indealing with the COVID-9 pandemic./.
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