US to join Russia in humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria by air - FM Lavrov

MUNICH, February 12. /TASS/. The United States will join Russia in humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria by air and a certain agreement had been reached on this issue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. "We shall continue, like it is fixed in today documents, working with the government and other opposing groups, which contact us," the foreign minister said. "We hope the U.S., countries of the region, other participants in the Syria Support Group will be using their influence on respective groups of the opposition to have them cooperate fully with the UN." "Our common decision is to ease sufferings of the Syrian people, and we hope this would be done," Lavrov continued. "This is especially important since some of the recent events on settlement of the humanitarian problems in Syria referred to refugees only and did not refer to the huge numbers of the internally displaced persons. Thus, we have reasons to hope today we have done something positive, which will develop into practical actions." "We hail the readiness of the United States to join the operation on parachuting humanitarian aid from aircraft in Deir ez-Zor, and agreed also on parachuting the aid in other districts as well, if conditions allow us to do that," Lavrov said after the Syria Support Group talks in Germany’s Munich. "However, most efforts, of course, are to be applied ‘on the ground’," he said. Read more