Sheikhmous Ahmed: humanitarian works should not be politicised

More than a million IDPs and refugees are living in North eastern Syria in 15 officially recognized camps that do not receive humanitarian aids provided by the United Nations and relief associations since mid- 2019 after the Tal Kocher Border Crossing due to the Russo-Chinese veto  hereby all humanitarian aids provided to Damascus government that used to put hands on most of these aids.

The Tal Kocher closure decision impinges upon the lives of all NES people burdening them with more economic hardships specifically in the Winter.

On this relation, Co-chair of the Office of IDPs Affairs of the Executive Council of the Autonomous  Administration of North and East Syria, Sheikhmous Ahmed who warned against the grave repercussions of the continuation of the Tal Kocher closure decision.

Ahmed said the decision regarding the Tal Kocher Border Crossing is a politically motivated one mere to put pressure on the AANES to make concessions to Russia and Damascus government calling on international community to reconsider the decision passed. '' NES people fought ISIS that posed threats to all the world and sacrificed immeasurably of martyrs and injured in the way to liberate their lands and to put an end to ISIS terror'', he said.  

Ahmed said the Tal Kocher Border Crossing is ''considered as the artery to conduit humanitarian aids provided by the UN to NES. Now the region suffers a tight blockade from all parts''.

Ahmed laid stress on the need by the ''international community to change its conduct towards the people of NES that fought the ISIS terror, the region is in grave need of humanitarian aids for the large number of IDPs the region house. The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria alone is not capable to shoulder all these burdens for services required for IDPs''.

Regarding the Russian and Chinese positions, Ahmed said '' they ought to re-consider their policies regarding the humanitarian work, and the Security Council should reconsider its decision that poses threats to lives of millions of people of region as well IDPs living in North-eastern Syria''.

Ahmed said more than a million and 100 000 IDPs are living in North eastern Syria coming from all Syrian territories.

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ANHA