Activists and emergency teams in north-west Syria have decried the UN’s slow response to the quake in rebel-held area. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SARMADA, Syria - The first UN delegation to visit rebel-held northwestern Syria since last week’s earthquake crossed over from Turkey on Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported, as anger simmers at the world body’s slow response.
The delegation comprised deputy regional humanitarian coordinator David Carden and Sanjana Quazi, who heads the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Turkey. On a visit to the Turkish side of the Bab al-Hawa crossing on Sunday, during which he met Syrian rescue teams, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths admitted that the world body had “so far failed the people in north-west Syria”.Before the quake struck, almost all of the humanitarian aid for the more than four million people living in rebel-controlled areas was delivered from Turkey through the Bab al-Hawa crossing.
The UN already has a Security Council mandate to use the Bab al-Hawa border crossing. It has been using that route since 2014 to deliver aid to millions of people in need in the north-west.
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