EU to use all diplomatic channels to press for aid to Aleppo


  • World
  • Friday, 16 Dec 2016

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European leaders promised to send food and medicine to people trapped in the devastated city of Aleppo, with France's president calling for a U.N. resolution to support the EU response that Russia could not refuse.

EU aid trucks have been waiting to go into the rebel strongholds of eastern Aleppo since early October and are Europe's only tangible assistance in a conflict that has left it marginalized, unable to agree sanctions to pressure Moscow.

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