No humanitarian convoys reach besieged areas in Syria in week

The UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said that no aid convoys had reached besieged areas of Syria for the past month, and that he had suspended a humanitarian task force until next week as a signal to major powers.

"Not one single convoy in one month has reached any of the humanitarian besieged areas," de Mistura said.

"I insist, on behalf of the Secretary General: to have a 48-hour pause in Aleppo, to start with, would require some heavy lifting not only by the two co-chairs (Russia and the United States) but also those who have influence on the ground," Reuters cited de Mistura as saying.