UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council in a vote on Tuesday is expected to extend UN humanitarian aid from Turkey to nearly four million people living in the north western Syria until January, two diplomats said.
The fifteen members of the Security Council will vote on a draft resolution drafted by Ireland and Norway, which aims to extend by six months the resolution first adopted in 2014.
Russia used its veto on Friday to block the one-year extension of this humanitarian aid, brought to a region beyond the control of President Bashar al-Assad.
To be adopted, a resolution must receive the votes of at least nine members of the Council, and Russia, China, the United States, France or Great Britain must not exercise their right of veto.
(Report Michelle Nichols; French version Camille Raynaud, said by Jean Terzian)