Al-Jaafari expressed Syria’s keen interest in a constructive cooperation with the United Nations and engaging agencies and organizations for addressing humanitarian needs, indicating that 96 Syrian civil organizations and 16 humanitarian NGOs have been licensed. (…)

Churkin indicated that a resolution of a humanitarian crisis is tied up with finding a political solution, emphasizing the need to resume the inter-Syrian dialogue according to Geneva communiqué.

For his part, China’s permanent representative to the UN, Li Baodong, stressed that the UN and other humanitarian organizations should work according to the resolution and respect Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, independence and unity.