No Humanitarian Convoy Can Improve Situation In Rukban Camp - Russian Foreign Ministry

Umanitarian convoys with food and medicine cannot improve the deplorable conditions in which an estimated 40,000 residents of Rukban camp for internally displaced Syrians have to live, and the only feasible solution to the problem is to permanently resettle the facility

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd March, 2019) Humanitarian convoys with food and medicine cannot improve the deplorable conditions in which an estimated 40,000 residents of Rukban camp for internally displaced Syrians have to live, and the only feasible solution to the problem is to permanently resettle the facility, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

"We are convinced that palliative measures, especially the deployment of [humanitarian] convoys with food and medicine [to Rukban] will not help improve the humanitarian situation in Rukban, especially given the fact that the overwhelming majority of those residing there would like to leave it as soon as possible," Igor Tsarikov said at a meeting of the joint Russia-Syria coordination center on refugee repatriation.

The spokesman noted that that Syrian authorities were ready to provide descent living conditions for the camp residents if they were evacuated.

The joint coordination center has repeatedly decried living conditions in the camp, located within the US-controlled zone in Syria's At Tanf, and accused Washington of preventing the camp residents from leaving the area.