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UN Considers Cease-Fire for Syria's Idlib

Margaret Besheer

   UNITED NATIONS - Three U.N. Security Council members have put forward a
   draft resolution calling for a cease-fire in Syria's northwestern Idlib
   province, which has been enduring an intensified Russia-backed Syrian
   government military campaign since April.

   "Over the last four months the ongoing military campaign, using
   continuous airstrikes, shelling and reportedly barrel bombs, has caused
   immense human suffering and took an enormous toll on the population,"
   Belgium Ambassador Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve said Thursday. He andthe
   ambassadors of Germany and Kuwaitoverseethe council's work on
   humanitarian efforts in Syria and jointly calledfor the council to act.

   "Today we call for the council to urgently take a unified stance with
   us against this violence that has caused so much human suffering," he
   said. "This situation cannot continue."

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