
US ambassador to UN will visit Syria-Turkey border on Monday
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations, will visit the Syria-Turkey border on Monday as Washington prepares to make the case for the need to maintain cross-border humanitarian assistance into Syria, a senior State Department official told reporters.
Thomas-Greenfield's visit comes amid concerns that Russia may stand in the way of keeping open the single route that now allows that aid to get into the war-torn country. The world is also facing another massive humanitarian crisis, in Ukraine, where the Russian invasion continues to displace millions.
"Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield's message is going to precisely be that refugees from the conflict in Syria are not forgotten, and that's exactly why she is making a trip like this and has made trips like this in the past. Our focus is on addressing humanitarian crises around the world wherever we find them and on seeing them through even over very long periods of time," the senior State Department official told reporters.

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