Humanitarian corridors Live Blog

13 weeks 1 day ago - France

The opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) said on Wednesday it was coming to the view that military intervention was the only solution to the nearly year-old crisis.

"We are really close to seeing this military intervention as the only solution. There are two evils, military intervention or protracted civil war," Basma Kodmani, a senior SNC official, told a news conference in Paris. 

Kodmani said the SNC was also proposing that Russia, an ally of Damascus, help persuade Damascus to guarantee safe passage to humanitarian convoys ferrying aid to civilians. 

She said the SNC proposed setting up corridors from Lebanon to the besieged city of Homs, from Turkey to Idlib and from Jordan to Deraa.

The SNC will also urge Egypt, at a Friends of Syria meeting due to be held in Tunis on Friday, to restrict access to the Suez Canal to any ships carrying weapons to the Syrian government. [Reuters]

Tags foreign intervention, humanitarian corridors, syria, Syrian National Council
25 weeks 3 days ago - Switzerland

Switzerland will examine the idea of creating humanitarian corridors to help civilians in Syria, President Micheline Calmy-Rey was quoted as saying on Monday.

The suggestion by France last week of setting up protected escape routes for Syrian civilians fleeing the unrest "is an interesting idea," Calmy-Rey told the press club in Geneva, according to the ATS news agency.

"The humanitarian situation is deteriorating. We will examine the idea of humanitarian corridors," she said. "If the project materialises, if it has positive effects, it will be a good thing." [AFP]

Tags humanitarian corridors, Micheline Calmy Rey, syria

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