A group of 73 Syria-based aid agencies have issued a joint statement declaring that they are suspending all cooperation with both the UN and all of their partners, including the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. They accused the UN of “complacency” in aid delivery disputes.
There have been ongoing disputes surrounding where and when aid deliveries would be made, and the letter claimed that the Syrian government is exploiting the situation to limit aid to certain rebel areas when it serves military objectives, and that the UN is letting it happen.
In addition to announcing their termination of cooperation, the letter called for an immediate, transparent investigation into the “political impact that the Syrian government has on humanitarian actors.” Several of the groups withdrawing are primarily delivering aid in rebel areas.
The UN, in their response, praised the “tremendous work” of their humanitarian efforts, and vowed to continue both operating within Syria without the 73 partners, and to continue to improve efforts to deliver aid, saying they “welcome any public scrutiny.”
And they are not being political, no…
And yes, now that the terrorist areas are surrounded, there must be a way to get the information and some supplies to them from their underwriters. There is an air of desperation in all this. if I were Syrian government, I would have someone check every truck and bag getting into those areas.
Has any reporter actually looked at the “aid agencies” who signed the letter. For example, the first one on the list is Big Heart Foundation and their website (http://bigheart.org) is suspended.
The second, Binaa Organization for Development, is located on Gaziantep, terrorist central in Turkey.
Others I’ve looked at had a head office in a private house n Nottingham and a flat above a supermarket in Paris.
I really doubt that most of the “aid agencies” are real but are in fact front organisations so that there could be lots of names on the letter. In fact the terrorist-aligned SAMS and White Hats might be the only real agencies on the list.
As for the claims in the letter, they should be treated as little more than terrorist propaganda.