WORLD_ UN agencies appeal for end to Syrian carnage

UN agencies appeal for end to Syrian carnage

By Middle East correspondent Matt Brown, wires
Posted 3 hours 11 minutes ago




Photo: The agencies say Syria is at a tipping point. (AFP: SANA)


The heads of five major UN agencies have issued a rare joint appeal to the international community to do more to end the "cruelty and carnage" in Syria.


The extraordinary statement was signed by the heads of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), World Health Organisation (WHO), the Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Program (WFP) and global aid coordinating body OCHA.

In it, they warned that they may soon be forced to suspend humanitarian aid to the war-torn country.

Saying the region was at a tipping point, they accused the government and others involved in the conflict of lacking a sense of urgency to stop the conflict.

"To all involved in this brutal conflict and to all governments that can influence them: In the name of all those who have so suffered, and the many more whose futures hang in the balance: Enough! Summon and use your influence, now, to save the Syrian people and save the region from disaster," the statement said.

Guns fell silent in one of the main battle zones of Syria's biggest city, Aleppo, on Tuesday to let aid workers collect 31 bodies that had been rotting amid the rubble of the front line - the first truce in months of warfare in the city.

Red Crescent workers and members of an opposition local council drove into the edge of the working class al-Sakhour district in north Aleppo to pick up the mostly civilian dead, many of them hit by army sniper fire, as fighters from the two sides looked on, activists and rebel military sources said.

The opposition Aleppo Media Centre said the majority of the bodies, which included children, had already decomposed.

Meanwhile US president Barack Obama held the first of a string of meetings focusing partly on Syria with key Middle Eastern allies, as he met Abu Dhabi's crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahayan.

The president will also meet the leaders of Turkey, Qatar and Jordan in the coming weeks, as Syrian rebels renew their appeals for Washington to provide weapons.

ABC/wires



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