UN disappointed at Syria aid slowdown hopes to evacuate wounded

4/7/2016 12:09:58 PM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Jan Egeland Senior Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria speaks about the International Syria Support Group's Humanitarian Access Task Force update at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva Switzerland 07 April 2016. EPA/MARTIAL TREZZINI

GENEVA: The chairman of a U.N.humanitarian taskforce on Syria said on Thursday he wasdisappointed by a slowdown in aid access largely because ofblockages by government-backed forces but he hoped there wouldbe a major evacuation from four towns.

Jan Egeland said the evacuation was planned of up to 500sick and wounded people and their families from the towns ofMadaya Zabadani Foua and Kufreya.

Reuters

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