The Foundation for the Defense of American Democracies urged President Joe Biden’s administration to implement a strategy aimed at stopping the Assad regime’s theft of humanitarian aid in Syria.
In its report, the organization stated that, unlike Russia, the Biden administration did not play a decisive role in where the aid would go and how it would be delivered to the Syrian people, and emphasized that the regime should be prevented from using this aid to fill its own coffers. and to finance their military forces.
The report urges the U.S. administration to publicly address the problem and to prevent aid from being sent to Syria unless the regime ceases to seize it, as well as coordinating with allies to prevent aid transfer and taking advantage of their role in demanding specific reforms.
The report also highlights the need to revive surveillance within the United Nations, reform aid operations in Syria, renegotiate the terms of the United Nations agencies’ relationship with the regime, and call upon Congress to set the terms and halt the flow of aid. Stolen by Assad.
The foundation believes that Russia’s threat to withhold aid compelled the United Nations to renegotiate the rules of humanitarian operations with the Assad regime, which “holds its sovereign privileges despite Syria being a failed state” and urges donor countries to establish a “parallel regime”. Aid channel that is not dependent on the authority of the United Nations.”
