The UK Foreign Office has warned of the consequences of stopping the delivery of humanitarian aid to northern Syria for millions of residents and displaced people. The warning comes as a UN Security Council resolution that allows the United Nations and its partners to provide vital humanitarian assistance in northwest Syria has expired.

And the British Foreign Office said in a statement that “the end of the UN mandate to bring aid across Syria means depriving 2.5 million people of food, water and basic services, curtailing services for women and girls in the northwest, losing control of trucks with help and preventing them from falling into the hands of militants, as well as preventing trucks from falling into the hands of armed people with help.” Hindering efforts to combat the coronavirus epidemic.

The statement called for “solutions that alleviate human suffering and promote peace and security,” stressing that “the situation in Syria continues to deteriorate as 80 percent of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance.”

He stressed that “the call made last week by humanitarian aid organizations operating on the border, United Nations officials and more than 32 NGO leaders confirms that the ending of the mandate will be disastrous,” and added: “ Closing the border of previous crossings should have disastrous consequences.” As a clear warning, needs have escalated in the northeast since the closure of the Yarubia crossing.”

The ministry urged members of the UN Security Council to update and expand Resolution 2585 as the United Nations and humanitarian partners need at least a 12-month extension to continue expanding early recovery programs.

This decision is critical to the lives and safety of the 4.1 million people stranded in northwest Syria, where many depend on humanitarian assistance, especially displaced people, for their survival, while more than 3.2 million people in the region suffer from food insecurity and need food assistance. .