Noting that air delivery is “certainly not a substitute for land delivery,” Mr. He said that the World Food Programme (WFP) had studied the issue and is in the process of finalizing its plans. The other development – the deadline for the air drops of 1 June – had been discussed in detail by the humanitarian task force. There has been some positive movement in terms of humanitarian access yesterday and the expectations there will be some more positive developments in the next few days, but of course we have to wait and see,” he said.Ī family from Darayya, Syria, receiving food rations. “It comes against the backdrop of two developments, as you are aware. Egeland noted.Īlso speaking to the press was Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, who highlighted that the latest meeting of the humanitarian task force was “important and useful.” But one of the reasons we are adding people to the list is that we are now getting access and we have better assessment of the situation in these areas,” Mr. “Altogether, 592,000 people are now in besieged areas, and it is not a good sign that we have to add people to that list. He said attempts had been made to reach Al-Wae'r in the next few days, and that the Red Crescent had been able to deliver some items over the past 48 hours. Egeland said the area has 75,000 people and is “possibly the place with the worst nutritional situation” of all the besieged areas. Noting that one more besieged area – Al'Wae'r – had been added to the list since the last meeting, Mr. He added that the task force has “full hopes” that a full convoy to follow up on the supplies delivered to Darayya will be able to be delivered very soon. In addition, another three areas could be reached for the first time in the next few days. Egeland said that, thus far, 14 out of the 19 besieged areas on the Task Force's list had been reached since the beginning of the year. The task force plans to return to Darayya with food, Moadameyah, again with food, five places in the east Ghouta area, Kafr Batna, and three areas – Zabadin, Arbin and Zamalka – where it hasn't been yet. Egeland, who is the Senior Advisor to UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura. “We reached many fewer places and many fewer people than we did in March and April,” said Mr. Egeland said that while May had been a “very bad month” for the humanitarian task force, June seems to be “much better.” VowelsSpeaking to the press in Geneva at the conclusion of a meeting of the humanitarian task force set up by the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) – comprised of the UN, the Arab League, the European Union and 18 countries that have been working on a way forward since late last year – Mr. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but /ˈpɛdl̩i/. Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. * /d/ also represents a 'tapped' /t/ as in
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