The UN has called on Kiev to make wider humanitarian access in the Donbass

Kiev is obliged to make wider the access controlled by the militia of Donbass areas for the UN humanitarian agencies, according to a weekly report of the office of the United Nations office for the coordination of humanitarian Affairs.
From this it follows that the humanitarian coordinator of the UN in Ukraine Neil Walker conducts dialogues with key government agencies ", discussing with them, for example, "discovery of multiple crossings outside government control areas, as well as the introduction of simplified procedures for clearance of humanitarian cargo," reports the news Agency.
"All these points in another not named ", - stated in the report, covering the period from June 27 to July 10." as of July 10 checkpoint near Volnovakha is still the main passage of humanitarian cargo and personnel, including the crossing point between Artemivsk and Gorlovka available for trucks up To 5 tons, " pay attention in humanitarian management. Meeting on humanitarian access are underway with the authorities proclaimed Donetsk national Republic (DND), which has recently introduced compulsory registration for all existing on the territory under its control organizations. Humanitarian UN office stress and other issues of concern. For example, the report shows that after the Kiev-imposed new rules for crossing the line of contact of the crossing points formed a 48-hour turn. Launched by the Ukrainian authorities, the electronic badging system cannot cope with the huge volume of requests and occasionally faltering. In OCHA again indicate a serious lack of funds to provide assistance to Ukraine. Before the end of the year for These purposes, the UN will need 205 million dollars. Tuesday OCHA informed that the number of internally displaced persons in Ukraine since the end of June increased nearly 24 thousand People and amounted to 1 million 381 thousand 953 people.


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