Syrian Government Backs Away From U.N. Plan On Humanitarian Relief For Homs -- Washington Post
GENEVA — Hopes faded Monday for a quick win at peace talks between Syria’s warring factions, with no sign that the Syrian government was prepared to allow a convoy of food to enter a besieged neighborhood in central Homs under the terms of an agreement brokered by the United Nations.
The Syrian government said Monday it would allow women and children to leave Homs’s Old City, where around 2,500 people are facing rapidly deteriorating conditions after being surrounded by government troops for nearly two years.
But the U.N.-brokered plan calls for food to enter the area, rather than for women and children to evacuate, which would divide families and leave civilian and elderly men without help. The governor of Homs, Talal Barrazi, met Monday with United Nations officials to discuss where to take women and children who left the war-torn city about 100 miles north of Damascus, Syrian state television reported. But there was no mention of permitting the convoy of food, which was readied days ago, to enter the area.
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