The Situation In The Middle East This Record Contains The Text Of Speeches Delivered In English And Of The Translation Of Speeches Delivered In Other Languages. ; United Nations S/2018/234 Security Council Distr.: General 19 March 2018 Original: English 18-04262 (E) 210318 *1804262* Letter dated 16 March 2018 from the representatives of France, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council We, the undersigned members of the Security Council, are writing to express our profound concern about the lack of implementation of Security Council resolution 2401 (2018), namely, by the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Federation, which was adopted unanimously by the Council on 24 February 2018. The resolution demanded that all parties cease hostilities throughout Syria without delay, desist from attacks directed against civilians and enable the safe, unimpeded and sustained delivery of humanitarian aid and services and safe, unconditional medical evacuations. On 12 March, the Secretary-General briefed the Council on the implementation of resolution 2401 (2018), and despite the unanimous Council support for the resolution, he reported that “we see egregious violations, indiscriminate attacks and a failure to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure â€. He also reported that the provision of humanitarian aid and services had not been safe, unimpeded or sustained, that such delivery of assistance had been impossible during the five-hour window declared by Russia, that there had been no lifting of sieges and that not one critically sick or wounded person had been evacuated by the 15 -day mark. In short, he said that there had been no cessation of hos tilities. The Secretary-General noted that, particularly in eastern Ghutah, air strikes, shelling and ground offensives had intensified after the adoption of resolution 2401 (2018) and had claimed many ...