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Syria: Turkey

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN HL1243, tabled on 21 June 2021

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to vote at the United Nations Security Council (1) to keep open the crossing point at Bab-al-Hawa on the Turkey–Syria frontier for relief supplies, and (2) to re-open three closed crossings between Turkey and Syria.

Answered on

5 July 2021

The UK is urging members of the UN Security Council to vote in favour of renewing UN Security Council resolution 2533 in July to maintain current crossing point, Bab-al-Hawa, as well as re-open additional border crossings.