WorldGENEVA, AFP -The UN Syria envoy on Tuesday urged the Damascus government to allow humanitarian aid deliveries “immediately”, indicating the regime had broken its pledges on the distribution of life-saving supplies. “We cannot let days of this reduction of violence to be wasted by not moving forward” on aid deliveries, he added. The two top UN diplomats raised specific concern over rebel-held eastern Aleppo, which has not received aid since regime forces seized the Castello Road supply route in early July. De Mistura said that the Russian-American deal included an agreement that the regime would not inspect humanitarian cargo headed to eastern Aleppo on the Castello Road. De Mistura stressed that, according to the terms of ceasefire deal, he expected “unimpeded movement of UN convoys” along the Castello Road.

Source: Sunday Times September 15, 2016 11:48 UTC