{"id":57246,"date":"2020-01-03T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=57246"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T03:52:09","slug":"un-council-to-meet-friday-on-syrias-idlib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=57246","title":{"rendered":"UN Council to meet Friday on Syria\u2019s Idlib"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1-3.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, Jan 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The UN Security<br>Council will meet behind closed doors on Friday to discuss an uptick in<br>violence in the embattled Syrian opposition stronghold of Idlib.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting \u2014 which will begin at 10 (1500 GMT) \u2014 comes at the<br>request of Britain and France, with the backing of the United States, <br>diplomats said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some diplomats hope the session will provide an occasion to discuss the<br>reauthorization of cross-border UN humanitarian aid deliveries to millions of Syrians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humanitarian aid currently flows into Syria through UN-designated<br>checkpoints in Turkey and Iraq without the formal permission of the regime in Damascus, but that arrangement expires on Jan 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, Russia and China vetoed a resolution that would have extended<br>those deliveries for a year. Moscow says it will only approve a six-month<br>extension using two checkpoints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three million people in the Idlib area benefit from that aid, according to<br>the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a telephone call on Thursday, US President Donald Trump and Turkey\u2019s<br>Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed on \u201cthe need for de-escalation in Idlib, Syria,<br>in order to protect civilians,\u201d the White House said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore called for an \u201cimmediate cessation of hostilities in the northwest of Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe call on those fighting, especially in the northwest, and those with<br>influence over them for the following: stop all attacks on children and<br>services that provide for them, including health and education facilities and<br>water systems,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to UNICEF, at least 140,000 children have been displaced in the<br>past three weeks due to fighting in and around Idlib.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Syrian ally Russia announced a ceasefire for Idlib in late August after<br>months of deadly Russian and regime bombardment that killed around 1,000 civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But sporadic clashes and bombardment persisted throughout the autumn before a spike in violence in the past month, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, Jan 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The UN SecurityCouncil will meet behind closed doors on Friday to discuss an uptick inviolence in the embattled Syrian opposition stronghold of Idlib. The meeting \u2014 which will begin at 10 (1500 GMT) \u2014 comes at therequest of Britain and France, with the backing of the United States, diplomats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}