Russia's U.N. envoy said on Friday he is willing to meet his U.S. counterpart to discuss aid deliveries into Syria from Turkey, but that it was 'a bit funny' that she warned him about leveraging Russia's war in Ukraine during talks on Syria.
FILE PHOTO: Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia attends U.N. Security Council meeting in New YorkUNITED NATIONS - Russia's U.N. envoy said on Friday he is willing to meet his U.S. counterpart to discuss aid deliveries into Syria from Turkey, but that it was "a bit funny" that she warned him about leveraging Russia's war in Ukraine during talks on Syria.
"That's a bit funny that she warns us in advance that we should not use any leverage of that," Nebenzia told reporters on Friday. "We can say it in reverse as well." "It's not working as we want it to," said Nebenzia, adding that Russia believed not enough effort had been made to deliver more aid to the region from inside Syria. "Who's to blame? That's a good question."
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council in his latest report on Syria aid operations in April that "challenges still need to be overcome to achieve regular and sustained cross-line operations in the north-west."
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