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The Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said, “The tragic reality is that, for as long violent conflict continues, and the political process is blocked, the suffering of the Syrian people will simply get worse.”
Addressing the Security Council on Wednesday (23 Aug), he noted that one latest indicator of suffering is the further collapsing economy.
He said, “A very bad economic situation has got even worse. In some three months, the Syrian pound has lost over 80 percent of its value. Last week, it hit an all-time low of 15,500 to the US dollar at the unofficial market rate – remember that in 2011, the Syrian pound was 47 to the dollar.”
Some steps were taken to respond to this sudden deterioration, including doubling minimum state salaries to roughly 13 US dollars monthly.
Yet, Pedersen highlighted, a monthly food basket in June cost at least 81 US dollars, according to the World Food Programme: a figure that has increased by roughly 70 percent in a year.
The Special Envoy for Syria continued, “Prices are now spiraling out of control for essential goods such as food, medicine, fuel, basic commodities. Every part of Syria, every community, is affected. Many are struggling to provide meals to their families.”
Pedersen welcomed the understanding on the continued use of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing for the next six months to deliver life-saving humanitarian assistance to millions of people in need in north-west Syria.
He also welcomed the extension of authorization for the UN to use the Bab al-Salam and Al-Ra’ee border crossings for an additional three months, as well as consent to cross the lines within Syria at Sarmada and Saraqib for the delivery of assistance for the next six months.
He said it is essential that the UN and its partners continue providing cross-border humanitarian assistance at the necessary scale and in a principled manner that allows engagement with all parties to seek humanitarian access and safeguards the UN’s operational independence.
He also said, “We must not forget that, despite a broad military stalemate, the violent conflict continues, causing civilian deaths and destruction on all sides in Syria.”
Pedersen said that this last month, there were: airstrikes attributed to Israel near Damascus; reports of pro-government airstrikes in northwest Syria by listed terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Syrian Government positions, as well as front-line clashes and exchanges of artillery; attacks claimed by ISIL during Ashura commemoration near the Sayida Zeynab shrine, and later on a bus carrying Syrian Government forces near al Mayadin; reports of strikes on a US military base in Deir-ez-Zor; reports of Turkish drone strikes in north and northeast Syria; an SDF attack on a Turkish military base in Azaz; reports of clashes between factions in areas under the control of the SDF; reports of clashes and tensions in the South in Daraa, Tafas and Sweida; a strike by the International Coalition on radical group Hurras al-Din in al-Bab.
Pedersen stressed, “Syria cannot fix its economy while it is in a state of conflict. This applies to the many other crises that ravage Syria: the crisis of displacement, of the detained, abducted, and missing, of human rights abuses, of terrorism, of hostilities and violent conflict, of the de facto division of Syria undermining its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
He concluded, “It is deeply troubling that, for over a year, the intra-Syrian political process has been in deep freeze. A political process is the right of the Syrian people. They are entitled to chart their destiny. And a political process is a necessity.”
Addressing the Security Council on Wednesday (23 Aug), he noted that one latest indicator of suffering is the further collapsing economy.
He said, “A very bad economic situation has got even worse. In some three months, the Syrian pound has lost over 80 percent of its value. Last week, it hit an all-time low of 15,500 to the US dollar at the unofficial market rate – remember that in 2011, the Syrian pound was 47 to the dollar.”
Some steps were taken to respond to this sudden deterioration, including doubling minimum state salaries to roughly 13 US dollars monthly.
Yet, Pedersen highlighted, a monthly food basket in June cost at least 81 US dollars, according to the World Food Programme: a figure that has increased by roughly 70 percent in a year.
The Special Envoy for Syria continued, “Prices are now spiraling out of control for essential goods such as food, medicine, fuel, basic commodities. Every part of Syria, every community, is affected. Many are struggling to provide meals to their families.”
Pedersen welcomed the understanding on the continued use of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing for the next six months to deliver life-saving humanitarian assistance to millions of people in need in north-west Syria.
He also welcomed the extension of authorization for the UN to use the Bab al-Salam and Al-Ra’ee border crossings for an additional three months, as well as consent to cross the lines within Syria at Sarmada and Saraqib for the delivery of assistance for the next six months.
He said it is essential that the UN and its partners continue providing cross-border humanitarian assistance at the necessary scale and in a principled manner that allows engagement with all parties to seek humanitarian access and safeguards the UN’s operational independence.
He also said, “We must not forget that, despite a broad military stalemate, the violent conflict continues, causing civilian deaths and destruction on all sides in Syria.”
Pedersen said that this last month, there were: airstrikes attributed to Israel near Damascus; reports of pro-government airstrikes in northwest Syria by listed terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Syrian Government positions, as well as front-line clashes and exchanges of artillery; attacks claimed by ISIL during Ashura commemoration near the Sayida Zeynab shrine, and later on a bus carrying Syrian Government forces near al Mayadin; reports of strikes on a US military base in Deir-ez-Zor; reports of Turkish drone strikes in north and northeast Syria; an SDF attack on a Turkish military base in Azaz; reports of clashes between factions in areas under the control of the SDF; reports of clashes and tensions in the South in Daraa, Tafas and Sweida; a strike by the International Coalition on radical group Hurras al-Din in al-Bab.
Pedersen stressed, “Syria cannot fix its economy while it is in a state of conflict. This applies to the many other crises that ravage Syria: the crisis of displacement, of the detained, abducted, and missing, of human rights abuses, of terrorism, of hostilities and violent conflict, of the de facto division of Syria undermining its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
He concluded, “It is deeply troubling that, for over a year, the intra-Syrian political process has been in deep freeze. A political process is the right of the Syrian people. They are entitled to chart their destiny. And a political process is a necessity.”
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