UNSC. Archival photo UN, July 12 The vote in the UN Security Council on a resolution to extend the mechanism for the cross-border delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria is scheduled for 9.00 (16.00 Moscow time) on Tuesday, a source in the UN Security Council told RIA Novosti. «The vote is scheduled for tomorrow at 9.00,» the source said. Earlier, Ireland and Norway submitted a draft resolution to extend the operation of the Bab el-Hawa checkpoint on the Syrian-Turkish border for 6 months with the possibility of extending for another 6 months upon adoption of the relevant resolution. Facilitated delivery mode humanitarian and medical cargo to Syria from neighboring states (primarily across the border with Turkey) through border crossings has been in force since 2014. This mechanism is renewed annually. Within its framework, UN humanitarian agencies and their partners were initially entitled to use routes through the lines of confrontation and four border checkpoints: Bab es-Salam and Bab al-Hawa (both on the border of Syria and Turkey ), «Al-Yarubiya» (on the border with Iraq) and «Al-Ramta» (on the border with Jordan). As the Syrian army began to establish control over more and more territory, Damascus and Moscow began to advocate a gradual curtailment of the work of border crossings. On July 10, 2022, the only remaining border crossing on the Syrian border, Bab al-Hawa, expired.
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