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July 13, 2020

U.N. Security Council to Allow Limited Humanitarian Aid to Syria's Idlib Province
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The United Nations Security Council voted Saturday to open a single
border crossing to allow humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey into
Idlib province, a rebel-held region of northwestern Syria. The weekend
agreement broke a week-long stalemate, after Russia and China vetoed
plans to allow humanitarian aid shipments through two border crossing
points. Idlib recently recorded its first case of COVID-19, raising
fears for more than a million internally displaced Syrians living in
sprawling camps. 


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