No Progress Despite Intense Security Council Talks on IdlibThe United Nations Security Council meets on North Korea's nuclear program at UN headquarters in New York City, New York, US, December 15, 2017. Humanitarian aid currently flows into northwestern Syria -- a last opposition stronghold -- through UN-designated checkpoints in Turkey and Iraq without the Assad regime’s formal permission. In a first closed-door meeting Friday, Security Council delegates were briefed by the under- secretaries general for political and humanitarian affairs, respectively Rosemary DiCarlo and Mark Lowcock. An earlier Russian draft proposal to that effect won only nine of the 15 Security Council votes needed for approval. Syria's UN ambassador, Bashar Jaafari, told reporters on Friday that there was "no longer any justification for cross-border delivery of humanitarian aid."

Source: Libya Today January 04, 2020 06:22 UTC