Dr Joanne Liu UN Security Council address 28 Sept 2016

MSF International President, Dr Joanne Liu, addresses the United Nations Security Council:

The conduct of war today knows no limits. It is a race to the bottom. The unrelenting assault on Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces over recent days – with no evacuations possible, and bodies lying unburied – testifies to that.

On the third of May, this council unanimously passed Resolution 2286.

You, the Council Members, pledged to protect civilians and the medical services they need to survive.
You passed the resolution in the wake of the obliteration of Al Quds Hospital, in Aleppo by the Syrian government and its allies. It was just the latest in a staggering number of such attacks.
Five months later, the resolution has plainly failed to change anything on the ground.

This failure reflects a lack of political will - among member states fighting in coalitions, and those who enable them.
There can be no more waiting.
Make your pledges operational.

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