NEW YORK (UN). March 1 (Interfax) - Russia has distributed a draft statement of the UN Security Council chairman in support of implementing the resolution introducing the humanitarian pause in Syria, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said.
"We have distributed a draft statement of the [UN Security Council] chairman dealing with the fulfillment of the resolution [on the truce in Syria]. We have put it to a vote by default till 1 p.m. (New York time). We are urging the Council to pass it. I hope that no objections will be made by 1 p.m.," Nebenzya said at the UN Security Council meeting on Syria.
"As part of its Resolution 2401, the Security Council is insistently urging all of the parties to fulfil it and for this purpose is further insistently calling on all armed groups and all member countries, which can influence them, to ensure security of humanitarian corridors for evacuation from Eastern Ghouta," the Russian permanent representative read out the draft statement for the Council members.
Meanwhile, the draft document contains the calls "to create relevant humanitarian corridors in At-Tanf and Rukban" and a message to the UN secretary-general "to urgently dispatch a mission to Raqqah to evaluate its humanitarian needs."