U.N. chief demands urgent action on inadequate Syria aid access

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https://s3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/h9JVjKlbL__7u2jhvrHXew--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-05-22T232706Z_3_CBREA4L1I5Y00_RTROPTP_2_SYRIA-CRISIS.JPG (https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/u-n-urges-security-council-consider-steps-syria-192955825.html)By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday demanded that the Security Council take urgent action to ensure that millions of Syrians who have been denied emergency relief due to the country's bloody civil war get access to much-needed humanitarian aid. "Despite the clearly expressed will of the council and the best efforts of humanitarian actors, resolution 2139 has yet to make a meaningful difference to the lives of the millions of people in need in Syria," Ban said in a report to the Security Council. Three months after the council achieved rare unity in unanimously approving resolution 2139 which demanded rapid, safe and unhindered aid access, Ban said it was time for the 15-member body to "to urgently consider what steps it will **w take to secure compliance with its demands." Ban's report reached the Security Council hours after Russia and China vetoed a French-drafted resolution calling for the International Criminal Court to look into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria's three-year-old civil war, which has killed over 150,000 people.




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