UN Not to Give Up Medical Evacuation From Syria

UN will proceed with the idea of medical evacuation from beseiged Syria's regions the senior adviser to UN special envoy for Syria, said Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The United Nations does not give up the idea of medical evacuation from Syria's regions affected by the ongoing crisis, the senior adviser to UN special envoy for Syria, Jan Egeland, said Thursday.

"We are not giving up, we are starting again today to try to do the three things: evacuate those, who have very high expectations to timely get proper treatment, to have them evacuated," Egeland said.

He added that other things he hoped to be accomplished were to deliver medical supplies to the affected areas and to deliver food and other supplies to Syria's crisis zones.

The ongoing violence in Syria has claimed the lives of thousands of people and displaced millions more. The international community has undertaken steps to end the Syrian conflict and to solve the humanitarian crisis in the Middle Eastern country.

On October 20, the Russian "humanitarian pause" was introduced in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians from eastern part of the city via eight designated corridors. During the humanitarian pause, the Nusra Front terrorist group, recently renamed as Jabhat Fatah al Sham, prevented civilians from fleeing the city, attacking them.

On Wednesday, Russian Envoy to UN Vitaly Churkin at the meeting of the UN Security Council that the United Nations had not carried out medical evacuation from the eastern part of Aleppo properly, as there were no proper work with opposition in the city on the issue.