Posted on 07/20/2018 7:27:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
France and Russia have agreed to send 50 metric tons of medical aid to government-controlled eastern Ghouta in Syria, French officials said on Friday.
A Russian cargo plane arrived late Friday in Chateauroux in central France to take the aid, which includes medical supplies and other essential goods, to a Russian military base in northwestern Syria.
It will then be transported to eastern Ghouta, which the Syrian government retook from rebel forces in April.
Once in Syria, the cargo will be distributed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) with the help of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. [ ]
The cooperation comes after months of talks between Russian president Vladimir Putin and French president Emmanuel Macron. It is the first time a western country has delivered aid to government-controlled areas with Russias help.
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Brings back memories. www.chateaurouxairstation.com/
This is not an official site of everyone born at this US Air Force Base between 1951 and 1967, when the base closed.
Whatever is left of the Christian community in the Mideast owes much to Putin and nothing to Obama.
what?! France is colluding with Russia? The MSM hysterics should begin any minute now.
Well France has had pretty good luck in Russia recently.
Isn’t it just evident how hysterical Deutsche Welle is here.
I just looked at Reuters; same level of hysterics. They’re just screaming for Macron to be impeached. (Of course.)
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