Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock - Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria, 26 May 2021
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Thank you very much, Mr. President.
Complementing what Geir [Pedersen, Special Envoy for Syria] has just told you, I will cover four points today: firstly, the key water shortages in the north-east; secondly – again, as he began to describe – the ongoing economic crisis; third, the protection of civilians; and fourth, humanitarian access.
So let me start with the
water situation. We have not covered this in detail in my previous briefings to you, but there are a number of problems affecting the humanitarian situation now, which I thought we should draw to your attention.