France and Russia will jointly deliver humanitarian aid to the former Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta, the French Presidency said in a statement with Russia on Friday.
A Russian cargo plane arrived late Friday in Chateauroux in central France to load 50 tons of medical equipment and essential goods provided by France, said an AFP videographer at the scene, to be transported to the former rebel area which was recaptured by Syrian troops this spring.
Undertaken as part of a UN Security Council resolution, “the aim of this project is to enable civilian populations better access to aid,” the joint statement said.
The French foreign ministry said that the cargo plane would take off from Chateauroux later in the evening and head towards Russia’s Hmeimim air base in the west of Syria.
It will be the first joint humanitarian aid operation between Russia and a western country.
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Source: Seychelles News Agency
