The head of a local council in the east of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday (November 30th) called for a "safe corridor" to allow civilians to flee, AFP reported.
"Let the civilians leave, protect the civilians, put in place a safe corridor so they can leave," Brita Hagi Hassan said after meeting French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault in Paris.
"In the name of humanity, in the name of international law, we demand that civilians be allowed to leave Aleppo and go where they want to," he said.
Ayrault said protecting civilians was the "priority of the moment".
More than 50,000 Syrians have joined a growing exodus of civilians from eastern Aleppo as regime forces press on with an assault on opposition-held areas of the city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday.
The UN Security Council was set to hold an emergency meeting Wednesday on the situation, receiving a briefing from a UN humanitarian official and UN peace envoy Staffan de Mistura.
