Syria: Humanitarian Crisis and Disaster
... Lavrentiev, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Syria, noted that this will create better living conditions in certain areas of Syria that are not controlled by the Syrian government. In addition, Moscow has concerns that under the pretext of humanitarian aid, weapons can be supplied to the north-west of Syria. Russia also directly links the issue of curtailing the cross-border mechanism for the supply of humanitarian aid to the easing of sanctions against Syria. Moscow is calling for an end ...