'The United Nations Security Council has generally been a feckless institution on the Syria file. The council’s ineptitude was exposed at the very start of the 12-year civil war.' -DanDePetris
The United Nations Security Council has generally been a feckless institution on the Syria file. The council’s ineptitude was exposed at the very start of the 12-year civil war. A body that was crafted out of the ashes of World War II to maintain international peace and security instead looked like a meaningless debating society, with Russia on one side and the United States, Britain, and France on the other. Whenever the U.S.
In January 2020, Russia utilized its veto power to force a dramatic change in the U.N.’s Syria aid program, watering down the number of border crossings from four to two and forcing the U.N. to reauthorize the assistance every six months instead of the usual 12. In July 2020, the Russians implemented similar tactics to whittle down the two border crossings to one at Bab al Hawa.
"This is a gross affront to the values we all hold dear to our efforts to advance peace and security, and, above all, to the Syrian people who have endured so much needless suffering and violence at the hands of the Assad regime,” she told the chamber.
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