Moscow is calling for an end to the policy of collective punishment of the Syrians and has urged its partners to start rebuilding the Syrian economy
On January 9, 2023, the UN Security Council extended the cross-border mechanism for the supply of humanitarian aid to the north-western regions of Syria. According to
Resolution 2672
, the mechanism has been extended for six months, until July 10, 2023. Voting took place the day before the expiration of
Resolution 2642
, adopted in July 2022. Resolution ...
... conflict zones throughout the globe, including that in Syria.
Ruslan Mamedov:
Syria: Rules-Based International Order Creates Humanitarian Rule, Not Law?
So far, the UNSC failed to pass the resolution that would extend the cross-border mechanism (CBM) of humanitarian aid delivery to Syria since the UNSC res. 2585, which was adopted a year ago on July 9, 2021, expired on July 10, 2020. Traditionally, Russia and its Western counterparts struggle to reach a compromise to suffice all stakeholders. However,...
On April 1, 2022, Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of Coordination Division, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), visited Russian International Affairs Council
On April 1, 2022, Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of Coordination Division, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), visited Russian International Affairs Council.
During the conversation, the humanitarian aspects of Russia’s special operation on the territory of Ukraine were discussed, as well...
On March 23, 2022, Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), visited Russian International Affairs Council.
On March 23, 2022, Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), visited Russian International Affairs Council.
The discussion focused on the following issues: providing international humanitarian assistance to the needy residents of Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, the organization and uninterrupted...
... Another broader picture that should be considered is the Belt and Road Initiative, whose development, based on investment rather than aid, is an example (see
The Belt and Road Initiative: Towards a New World Order
).
Alexey Khlebnikov:
The Future of Humanitarian Aid Delivery to Syria: What is Russia’s Rationale?
The ambiguity of foreign aid: an alternative way of influencing states with non-shared values and without a sustainable institutional relay
Continuing with the ambiguity of foreign aid,...
... cross-border aid to Syria. On the agenda was the issue of the Bab al-Hawa checkpoint, which stopped functioning on July 11, 2021. This checkpoint on the Turkish-Syrian border is the last of four to be shut down since the mechanism began its work. It supplies humanitarian aid to the last de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria – Idlib province. Control over the province is held by various anti-government and terrorist groups, principally Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, otherwise known as HTS (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra,...
Report No. 62/2021
Report No. 62/2021
This report examines the ins and outs of providing international assistance to the Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) through the prism of risk management. It provides an evaluation of the original typology of the risks associated with the provision of external support and reveals the main endogenous and exogenous risk factors that determined the specifics of international assistance extended to the MENA countries in the 2010s after the...
A one-year extension to the current aid arrangements would be no one’s first choice—but would ensure civilians in Idlib continue to receive help
The next international showdown on Syria is quickly coming into view. After ten years of conflict, Bashar al-Assad may have won the war, but much is left to be done to win the peace. This is nowhere more so than in the province of Idlib, which is home to nearly 3 million people who now live under the control of extremist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)...
Russian solidarity should be regarded as an effort to maintain a political status quo already considered favorable
As Winston Churchill said in the mid-1940s as the end of World War II approached, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” At the time, the British Prime Minister was presumably referring to the Yalta conference and the resulting alliance between him, Stalin, and Roosevelt, the trio that would lead to the founding of the United Nations, thus generating opportunities within a crisis....
... society. It’s changed the way we do business, the way we interact with loved ones, and it might change the course of Russia-U.S. relations.
That’s because a few weeks ago, Russia did something that was quite remarkable. It sent over a planeload of humanitarian aid to help the United States, who has by all metrics been hit especially hard by this pandemic. More than 500,000 Americans have been infected and of those infected,
more than 23,000
have lost their lives. At the same time, another
16 ...
