Mar 2, 2018

The United Nations Human Rights Council has agreed to hold an emergency session Friday on the crisis in Syria's besieged rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta, following a British request.

The "urgent debate" on a resolution proposed by Britain is scheduled to open at 3pm (1400 GMT), a spokesman for the Geneva-based council, Rolando Gomez, said in a statement.

The British draft reiterates calls for immediate humanitarian access to Eastern Ghouta, whe

re a controversial truce unilaterally declared by Damascus-ally Russia has failed to produce a breakthrough.

The draft resolution also calls on war crimes investigators from the UN-backed Commission of Inquiry for Syria to conduct an investigation into alleged atrocities in the area.