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On « an emergency humanitarian initiative for Aleppo »: Statement by HR/VP Mogherini and Commissioner Stylianides

EU News 318/2016

Brussels, 2 October 2016

While we are working tirelessly to bring about a cessation of hostilities, today in the face of the humanitarian tragedy in Aleppo, we as the European Union are taking an urgent humanitarian initiative for Aleppo aimed at allowing humanitarian organisations to do their work and civilians to be rescued and protected.

We call on all parties to the conflict to support and facilitate this initiative.

This initiative, taken in cooperation with the UN, consists of two main elements:

- First, it aims at facilitating the urgent delivery of basic life-saving assistance to civilians in East Aleppo covering medical, water and food needs. An inter-aid agency convoy stands ready to move from West to East Aleppo drawing on prepositioned stocks made possible also through EU first line response funding. This convoy can deliver aid to a maximum of 130,000 people.

- Second, in parallel and simultaneously, it aims at ensuring the medical evacuations of wounded and sick from Eastern Aleppo in urgent need of medical care, with a focus on women, children and the elderly.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-16-3270_en.htm?locale=en