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The UK continues to demand full and sustained humanitarian access to besieged communities
in Syria, including Eastern Ghouta, at every opportunity including at the UN. The
UK strongly condemns the recent attacks and continued siege of Eastern Ghouta where,
due to the Syrian regime’s obstruction of aid deliveries and medical evacuations,
as well as the increased aerial bombardments by pro-regime forces, the humanitarian
situation has rapidly deteriorated over the last three months. UK officials raised
our concerns regarding Eastern Ghouta at the weekly International Syria Support Group
Humanitarian and Ceasefire Taskforces in Geneva on 14 December, as did the UK’s Permanent
Representative to the United Nations in New York at the humanitarian briefing to the
UN Security Council on 19 December. I issued a statement on 14 December calling for
all parties to the conflict to facilitate humanitarian access, allow for emergency
medical evacuations and take all feasible measures to protect civilians, as required
under international humanitarian law.
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