Several UN Security Council ambassadors expressed concern on Tuesday over the fate of civilians in Syria’s insurgent-held Idlib province, as government forces appear ready to re-take the region.
Following a Security Council meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Syria, Western countries warned that an attack by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces would have dire consequences, AFP reported.
“There are alarming signs of a pending military offensive in northwestern Syria,” said Carl Skau, Sweden’s ambassador to the Security Council. “Increased military escalation would have catastrophic consequences and can lead to a humanitarian disaster.”
The strategically important northwestern province of Idlib bordering Turkey is the last rebel holdout in Syria.
John Ging, a senior official with the UN Humanitarian Affairs office, said there has been a “serious deterioration of the humanitarian situation” in northwestern Syria in recent weeks.
Syria has a right to its own land, and Idlib must be brought back into
the fold. The UN could shaparone those who wish to leave before
the battle to make certain that no one is detained from leaving.
Can they could ‘shaparone’ them to your ‘burb ?
Do the Turks want them ? Maybe China could take in a few – to replace the million Uighurs the CPC have murdered.