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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour, diplomatic editor

Closing Syria aid route would be ‘catastrophe’, UN warned

At least a dozen lorry trailers are lined up in the photo. Trailers in foreground have rear doors open, showing boxes stacked
A humanitarian aid convoy waits to be inspected by customs officials at the Bab al-Hawa crossing from Turkey into Syria. Photograph: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images

The last remaining UN humanitarian aid route into Syria looks set to be shut down in a vote at the body’s security council next month, another casualty of the collapse in relations between the west and Russia.

On 10 July the council is due to vote on whether to keep open the Bab al-Hawa crossing from Turkey, which helps service rebel-held Idlib.

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