UN and Damascus announce "humanitarian" ceasefire in Aleppo
New York (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The Syrian regime has agreed to the idea of suspending aerial bombardment of Aleppo for six weeks, so as to respond to the humanitarian emergency in the city. This was stated by the UN envoy Staffan de Mistura presenting his report to the Security Council of the United Nations, after meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad a few days ago.
According to de Mistura, even the rebel troops, who control some areas of
the city and do not have air artillery, might
agree. The UN envoy is trying to locate a neighborhood of Aleppo where he could
launch a real ceasefire
and respond to the needs of the population. "The purpose - he said - is to save
the greatest number of civilian lives,
as we try to find a political solution".
Since July 2012, the city has been divided between Syrian troops, who control the west, and the rebels who control the east. Once
the beating heart of the economy of the country, today Aleppo
is a mass of destruction, even though hundreds of
thousands of residents who have
not fled are trying to survive in
the divided city.
The "Arab
Spring" which erupted in Syria
in 2011, with a
call for greater democracy, slid
into an embedded civil war sparking a regional and
international conflict, with the Arab
countries (Saudi Arabia, Qatar,
UAE) and the US
that supporting the rebels,
and Iran and Russia supporting Assad. Because
of the divisions in the UN Security Council, any dialogue to find solutions has been impossible
so far.
According to UN estimates, to
date at least 220 thousand people have been killed in the war; more than
3 million Syrians have fled to
Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq; about 6 million are
internally displaced.
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