US pushes UN vote on aid routes into earthquake-ravaged Syria
Six days after Syria's earthquake, the United States called on the UN Security Council to greenlight the use of additional aid corridors through a new resolution.
WASHINGTON — The United States is urging the United Nations to reopen humanitarian corridors into northwest Syria, where international relief has been slow to reach the survivors of last week’s powerful earthquake.
On Sunday, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, called on the Security Council to “vote immediately on a resolution" that would authorize additional border crossings.
“We have the power to act,” Thomas-Greenfield said in a statement. “It’s time to move with urgency and purpose.”
The US call came nearly a week after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, killing more than 35,000 people. In Syria, a country already ravaged by war, an estimated 5.3 million people have been made homeless by the Feb. 6 earthquake.
