UN to deliver humanitarian aid to Aleppo
The United Nations hopes to deliver humanitarian aid to eastern Aleppo, Syria, on September 16, Senior Adviser to UN Special Envoy for Syria, Jan Egeland said Thursday, Sputnik News reports.
According to the official, the United Nations is ready to reach besieged areas in Syria before the end of this week, and hopes to receive the governmental permission to do so.
“We are ready to go before the end of the week to other places that we asked the permission for and that were approved in September… However, not a single permit has been received,” he said. He added that; “hopefully, the humanitarian aid would reach all the besieged areas close to Damascus and Homs and elsewhere.”