200 thousand Syrians fled from Aleppo

About 200 thousand residents of one of the largest cities in Syria Aleppo were forced to flee as a result of the counterattack of government forces. This was announced on Sunday at the UN headquarters in New York by the head of the humanitarian missions of the organization Valery Amos.

Amos expressed concern in connection with the use of tanks, artillery and heavy weapons. According to the UN, a large number of residents would like to leave the combat zone, but do not have such an opportunity. Residents of Aleppo experience a lack of drinking water, food, mattresses and blankets, as well as hygiene supplies. Amos calls on the parties to refrain from violence against civilians and allow humanitarian organizations to provide assistance to the city.

The battles for Aleppo continue on Saturday. Both sides consider them as a decisive battle. Successful stripping of Aleppo from opponents of the regime will lead to the fact that all major cities will be under the control of the government. The opposition, in turn, plans in case of victory in Aleppo to take control of the city of Idlib, which is west from it from it. This will allow her to create along the northwestern border with Turkey the "security zone", which will be used as a bridgehead for further combating Bashar al-Assad.

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta during the Middle East Tour said that the attack on Aleppo would become a “a nail in the lid of the Assad’s coffin.

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Monday said that his country intends to demand an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council at the Foreign Ministry level in connection with the ongoing armed conflict. Fabius called Assad a "executioner" and noted that this meeting should "stop the massacre" in Syria. "Since France will prescribe from August 1 to the UN Security Council, we intend to demand a Council of Security Council by the end of this week," the minister said.

“I do not want to seem like an unbridled optimist about this, because the situation is very difficult and very difficult. But I still think that Kofi Annan’s plan has not exhausted itself, precisely because it is a political plan and peaceful plan,” said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with The Times. He noted that, despite the apparent discrepancies, the positions of Russia and the West do not differ so much. “We all proceed from the fact that the most bad script in Syria would be a full -fledged civil war, and now, if you want, there is such a foreboding of the civil war,” he said. “A huge number of peaceful people have died. As usual in such conflicts, both parties who did not want to hear each other and sit down at the negotiating table.”

Western countries and a number of Arab states through the UN Security Council are obtained by the departure of President Assad, believing that this will stop violence. Russia and China are constantly blocking the owl resolutions they offer. They fear that external intervention in the situation in Syria and the loss of statehood will lead to the growth of the conflict. As a result of July 20, it was possible to adopt only a resolution on the technical extension of the UN observers in Syria.

In Syria, since March 2011, anti -government protests have not stopped, which have grown into the armed struggle of the opposition with the formations of the country's power structures. Messages about new armed incidents and victims are received regularly, despite the fact that from mid -April, in accordance with the plan of the UN special representative, a truce has been announced in the country, which observes the UN observers are called upon. According to the UN, the number of victims of the conflict in Syria exceeded 16 thousand people.