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TunisiaSyria: EU calls for full respect of international humanitarian law following air strikes against humanitarian aid convoys
September 21, 2016
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The EU described the air strikes against the UN/Syrian Red Crescent humanitarian aid convoy yesterday near Aleppo in Syria as “alarming violations of international humanitarian law”. “This attack risks setting an unacceptable precedent, jeopardising the safe delivery of humanitarian aid everywhere,” said a joint statement by the EU High Representative for foreign affairs Federica Mogherini and Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides.
The EU Representatives called on all parties to the conflict to “refrain from any new attack and respect fully the cessation of hostilities. We call in particular on the Syrian government to cease its air campaign against non-terrorist targets in Aleppo, and to allow the immediate and unhindered resumption of humanitarian access to all besieged areas and in particular to the people of Aleppo.”
“As members of the International Syria Support Group the EU calls on the co-chairs, and on all other regional and international actors that are part of the ISSG, to respect and implement the truce and to exert their influence on all parties to the conflict to do the same, committing to a political transition in Syria in accordance with the UNSC resolution 2254,” said the statement.
“To this end, the EU is intensifying its work in these days within the ISSG, with the UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, and through its contacts with Syrian parties and regional actors.”(EU Neighbourhood Info)
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EU Neighbourhood Info Centre – Syria: EU calls for full implementation of cessation of hostilities agreement (19-09-2016)
European Commission – Factsheet – The European Union and Syria
European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection – Syrian crisis factsheet
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