UNITED NATIONS, February 28. /TASS/. A number of delegations to the United Nations Security Council actually pandering to terrorists in Syria’s Idlib, who are blocking humanitarian aid, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky said on Tuesday.
"Over the two weeks since the tragedy, not a single humanitarian convoy has managed to cross the contact lines due to open sabotage by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (outlawed in Russia) terrorists. Although taking into account the situation on the ground, logistics possibilities and the transport infrastructure, humanitarian supplies to northwestern Syria from Damascus are badly needed," he said at a UN Security Council meeting. "Such a situation is at least perplexing. Since it is about the same militants in Idlib who receive humanitarian aid in one case and put obstacles to it in another."
"Regrettably, a number of delegations to the Security Council, who are too shy to express concern over what is going on, are actually pandering to them not letting the Council express a fair assessment of terrorists’ actions," Polyansky said.
"Plus numerous evidence that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants are openly embezzling humanitarian assistance, which reaches the enclave via the cross-border mechanism, and reselling it to the local population, establishing control over volunteer humanitarian centers in the Idlib de-escalation zone, seizing funds coming to these centers, the picture looks quite unsparing for the Council," he said, adding that as a matter of fact, Western colleagues are trying to make everyone cover up the corruption scheme used by terrorists.
"And since militants are getting nothing from Syrian-government controlled cross-line deliveries or are getting much less than from the cross-border mechanism, they are not interested in them and Western capitals show little interest to such supplies after them," Polyansky noted.