Russia offers access to its Syria bases to help deliver aid
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Boys watch relief workers unloading parcels of humanitarian aid in the rebel held besieged town of Kafr Batna on the outskirts of Damascus Syria. Reuters
MOSCOW: Russia's Defence Ministry saidon Monday it was ready to give access to its military bases inSyria for humanitarian aid deliveries.
Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said aid packages could bedelivered and stored at its naval base in the Syrian port ofTartus and transport planes carrying aid could land at its airbase in Latakia.
He told a briefing shown on Russian state television thatRussia was also ready to provide vehicles to deliver aid fromits bases to areas in need.
On March 2 the ministry prepared a list of areas where itbelieved the aid was needed urgently and sent it to the UnitedNations.
The ministry said the cessation of hostilities in Syria wasbroadly holding despite what it described as some provocationsand shootings.
Reuters