The UN Security Council turned down the Russian-backed draft resolution on the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria via one crossing on the border with Turkey, a source in the organization told TASS on Wednesday.
Seven countries voted against the resolution (the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Belgium, Germany, the Dominican Republic and Estonia), four - in favor (Russia, China, Vietnam and South Africa), four abstained (Indonesia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Tunisia).
The vote was carried out in written format due to restrictions at the UN headquarters, imposed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The Russian proposal stipulated extending the mechanism of humanitarian deliveries to Syria’s affected regions by another six months, but limiting the number of border crossings for those deliveres to one facility - the Bab al-Hawa checkpoint on the Turkish-Syrian border.