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Agha

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2022-06-20
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2022-06-20
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  1. “While progress has been made on cross-line access to the north-west, cross-line operations are currently unable to deliver at the scale or frequency of the assistance required, and it would not be possible to scale them up in the coming months to replace what is currently being delivered by cross-border. To ensure that life-saving aid continues to reach the millions in need, we call on the Council to reauthorize — as it has generously done over the past years — the provisions of the cross-border resolution for at least 12 months to ensure that the United Nations cross-border response in north-west Syria remains in place. There are more than 4 million reasons to reauthorize the cross-border mandate — they are the people in need whose life depends on this humanitarian operation.”

    2022-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9068 (2022) · source

  2. “It will enable the timely and predictable delivery of humanitarian assistance and services, including early-recovery programmes, which are essential to meeting the humanitarian needs of affected populations in a safe and dignified manner. Any period of less than 12 months would create serious and unnecessary life-threatening risks for Syrians in the country’s north-west, just when the freezing temperatures of winter are beginning. There is currently no viable alternative for replacing the response being delivered through the cross-border modality.”

    2022-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9068 (2022) · source

  3. “NGOs rely heavily on the United Nations for its unique ability to procure pharmaceuticals and vaccines and provide key medicines that NGOs would not be able to procure bilaterally. Back in 2013, we faced a polio breakout scare in northern Syria due to the failure of vaccine programmes to reach the people there. The circumstances in 2013 that led to the authorization of cross-border support are still the same, if not worse. That is why it is necessary to maintain the cross-border modality so that immunization campaigns and vaccines continue to reach people there. The threat of a disease outbreak is not something to be taken lightly and would have a global impact, not just in north-western Syria. Reauthorizing the cross-border operations for a duration of at least 12 months is essential for north-west Syria.”

    2022-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9068 (2022) · source

  4. “The current cross-border operation reaches almost 60 per cent of the 4.1 million people in need of assistance each month. Eighty per cent of all food assistance in north-west Syria is delivered by the United Nations through the current cross-border mechanism. United Nations agencies have played a vital role in procuring, pre-positioning and transporting a large volume of core relief items across virtually every sector in north-western Syria. In the case of food and shelter, the United Nations procures an overwhelming proportion of the total assistance delivered to people in the north-west. While many core items are available and procured within the region, mainly Türkiye, United Nations agencies’ vital role in procurement provides stability and reliability in the humanitarian supply chain.”

    2022-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9068 (2022) · source

  5. “Millions of Syrians living in the country’s north-west have benefited from United Nations-led cross-border assistance over the past eight years, including 2.7 million beneficiaries targeted with education services; 9 million with food- security and livelihood interventions; 53.8 million with health interventions, 11.3 million with shelter and non-food-item support; 2.8 million with nutrition interventions; and 11.9 million with water, sanitation and hygiene services. It would be impossible for the United Nations cross-border operation to be replaced by an NGO- led response or cross-line operations without a massive humanitarian impact. The north-west would experience a quick and catastrophic deterioration of the humanitarian situation due to the high level of dependency there.”

    2022-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9068 (2022) · source

  6. “Since 2014, with the passing of the first cross- border resolution (resolution 2165 (2014), the humanitarian community of United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and donors have invested heavily to sustain life-saving aid to north-western Syria, ensuring that the population there is able to survive the harsh living conditions and providing little, but just enough, support to carry on. While the World Food Programme is working to provide food for more than 1.4 million people on a monthly basis, the overall number of people who are food-insecure in north-western Syria stands at 3.1 million, or more than 70 per cent of the population. The United Nations-led operations are complicated due to the sheer volume of services and aid that has to be provided to make life possible there.”

    2022-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9068 (2022) · source

  7. “The 1 million people who were displaced in 2019 due to the escalation of violence in Idlib are still displaced, meaning that cross- border humanitarian operations are the sole source for meeting their basic needs. An entire generation of Syrian children has been born and raised in camps, knowing only tents as their home. Humanitarian aid is an essential component in enabling them to carry on. The basics for us are a dream to them. To have access to clean water, regular meals and four walls to call home are luxuries that they do not dare to dream about.”

    2022-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9068 (2022) · source

  8. “I had hoped that I could bring something new today that the Council had not heard before, but as all my colleagues in the humanitarian community would say in their briefings, the dire humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate significantly. The numbers of people in need are rising on an annual basis, and our capacity to respond is decreasing, owing to reductions in funding as the world responds to additional humanitarian crises elsewhere. People in north-western Syria remain displaced, with more than 2.8 million living either in camps or informal settlements that cannot shelter them even from normal weather conditions. And yet we are also seeing extreme weather conditions on a seasonal basis that claim the lives of many.”

    2022-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9068 (2022) · source

  9. “Mr. Agha: Thank you, Mr. President, for affording me the opportunity to speak about Syria at such a critical time, when the Security Council is deliberating on the reauthorization of the cross-border resolution (resolution 2585 (2021)). I am here to speak on behalf of the North West Syria NGO Forum, which represents more than 80 national and international organizations that provide aid to more than 4 million people in need of assistance in north-western Syria. Aid operations provide a wide range of services, from basic needs such as food, shelter, water and primary health care to providing livelihood opportunities suitable in the context there.”

    2022-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9068 (2022) · source