The United States and several European nations believe the UN authorization for the crossing between Syria and Turkey should renew automatically for an additional six months, without the need for a new vote.
Moscow has linked any potential extension to Tuesday’s report, as well as a possible new vote but Russia, a key ally to the Damascus regime, has previously opposed the move, invoking Syrian sovereignty.
The cross-border mechanism has been operating since 2020 through Bab al-Hawa, after the Russian-imposed removal in 2019 of three other access points in Syria.
At this point such cross-line convoys, even if deployed regularly, could not replicate the size and scope of the cross-border operation,” he said.
Guterres said some 4.5 million people in Syria need help this winter, up 12 percent from the previous year, because of the economic crisis and the global pandemic.
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