After the Syrian regime started to take control of and interfere in the work of UN agencies and independent humanitarian organizations inside Syria, representatives of 73 humanitarian organizations that are active across the different Syrian geographical areas in various fields, including education, relief and development, met to reconsider their participation in the Information Sharing and Coordination Plan in Syria”.
In the final agenda that they have come up with after minute deliberations, the organizations decided to temporarily suspend their participation in the Information Sharing and Coordination Plan in the Whole of Syria (also known as WOS), as an preliminary reaction to the Syrian government’s political interference and the inability of the UN agencies’ offices and their partners in the Syrian capital Damascus to counterbalance this influence until an utterly apolitical plan devoid of any political interventionism is reached.
The organizations that participated in the meeting also called for a transparent investigation of the media reports on the UN agencies’ performance and conduct in Damascus, particularly with regard to the death of Siamese twins (Conjoined twins) Nawrass and Moaz, who were expelled from the besieged Eastern Ghouta after pressures from humanitarian authorities, and who then “died after 12 hours of their expulsion, after procrastinations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to obtain a travel permission for them to have a separation operation outside of Syria.”
The statement also called for “reviewing the medical evacuation plan in Syria through setting up a protocol to ensure the transparent evacuation of the injured and the wounded whereby decision taking shall be put at the hands of humanitarian agencies without the need to resort to negotiations or any political intervention from any military or political group.”