UN official: Pauses in Syria suburb unilateral, 'not enough'
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March 2, 2018
BEIRUT (AP) — The five-hour daily pauses in fighting in Syria's embattled eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus — laid out under a "unilateral" plan by Russia — are not enough to take in aid or evacuate civilians, a top U.N. aid official said Thursday.
Jan Egeland also said the U.N. Security Council resolution over the weekend calling for a 30-day cease-fire has done little to improve the situation in the rebel-held region east of Damascus.
"Since it was adopted, it did not get better — it got worse," he said.
Eastern Ghouta was among the first areas to rise up against President Bashar Assad...
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