Talking about humanitarian aid, the UN chief said that "we are revising our plans and issuing an urgent appeal to donors for an additional 500 million U.S. dollars to cover the needs of the newly displaced people over the next six months."
"Beyond the appalling humanitarian crisis, developments on the ground are making matters more and more dangerous," said secretary-general.
As for the Idlib de-escalation zone, Guterres said that the zone was established in 2017 - and the subject of a further memorandum between the Russian Federation and Turkey in September 2018, the Sochi Memorandum. "However, by late February 2019 the arrangement began to falter, despite several ceasefire renewals in the subsequent months, most recently on Jan. 12."
"For almost a year we have seen a series of Syrian government ground offensives supported by Russian airstrikes. This month there have been repeated deadly clashes between Turkish and Syrian Government forces."
"All of this means that in addition to a dramatic and deteriorating humanitarian situation, we face now the risk of an ever-more serious confrontation with increasingly uNPRedictable consequences," Guterres warned.
Noting that it is crucial to break the "vicious circle of violence and suffering," the UN chief stressed that "I have repeatedly called for an immediate ceasefire in Idlib to end the humanitarian catastrophe and now also to avoid an uncontrollable escalation."
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