UN Rejects Damascus' Conditions for Transfer of Aid Across The Border From Turkyie

The United Nations (UN) has expressed concern about "unacceptable conditions" set by Damascus for the use of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing to deliver vital humanitarian aid to millions of people in opposition-held areas in northwest Syria.

The United Nations ejected two conditions set by Damascus to allow the passage of humanitarian aid at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Turkey.

The UN raised concerns on Friday evening about a letter it received from Syria allowing it to resume using a border crossing to deliver aid to northwestern Syria from Turkyie after the UN Security Council's authorization to use the crossing expired last Monday.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that the Syrian government's demand that the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent supervise and facilitate the distribution of humanitarian aid in northwestern Syria "is not compatible with the independence of the United Nations and impractical, because the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent are not present in that area.