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Syrian President Assad has visited the city of Aleppo for the first time in years. He reopened a power plant damaged by the civil war and visited the historic market and a famous mosque.
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After the violent uprising against the president began in 2011, Aleppo was an opposition stronghold for many years. In December 2016, however, the city fell completely back into the hands of government forces when they broke through the tough resistance thanks to Russian aid. The civil war claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Syrians.
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Assad opened a rebuilt power plant in the city that had been damaged in the fighting. Photos released by the regime also showed him walking through the city with his wife, two sons and a daughter.
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Aleppo was once the commercial center of the country, with a population larger than the capital Damascus. Parts of the region of the same name are still in the hands of the opposition.
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Assad on the market in Aleppo –
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Assad with his family –
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Assad in the reopened power plant –
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Assad’s visit came on the day that Russia vetoed an extension of the UN aid mission in the northwest of the country in the Security Council. The country did not agree to a one-year extension for aid transports to 4 million people from Turkey.
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Moscow considers this an infringement of Syrian sovereignty and calls for more aid convoys from Syria itself. Western countries are afraid that Assad will then be able to exert more influence on aid to opponents.
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Russia proposed a six-month compromise, but it was not adopted by the Security Council, because aid organizations consider that too short a period of time to be able to arrange adequate aid. Only China voted in favor of this with Russia.
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People will die because of this mood.
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Initially, humanitarian aid was delivered from Iraq, Jordan and two places in Turkey to areas controlled by Syrian opposition forces. Over the years, vetoes from China and Russia have reduced that to a single point from Bab al-Hawa, Turkey, an hour’s drive west of Aleppo.
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Tomorrow the UN mandate expires and emergency aid transports from Turkey would come to a standstill. It is unclear whether it is still possible to reach a compromise before then.
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The US warned that “people will die from this vote”. Emergency aid is needed more than ever, due to drought in the area, fuel shortages and food shortages caused by the war in Ukraine.
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