UN humanitarian chief points finger at Syria

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https://s2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Jf5v.zUjc1C15lxlaRn7lw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-AE_XE/News/AFPMideastEN/9ede9596938fcf8dd9e35862b0e72b19cf0d0583.jpg (https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/un-humanitarian-chief-points-finger-syria-181809968.html)Syria is more concerned with obstructing the United Nations than getting urgent aid to millions of its most needy, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos told the Security Council on Thursday. Amos was presenting the fourth UN report on humanitarian access in war-torn Syria, and stressed that 10.8 million Syrians were in desperate need of humanitarian aid -- but that workers were having trouble reaching about half of them. "Four years into this war, we are unable to sustainably reach nearly half of those identified as being in the direst need." She added: "Arbitrary restrictions and obstructions including bureaucratic procedures imposed by the government limit or obstruct where we deliver aid, to whom and how often." Amos repeated her demand that Damascus allow aid to pass into Syria from neighboring Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, which she said would help 1.3 million people. Syria opposes the delivery of cross-border aid that would send supplies directly to areas held by the armed opposition in its brutal civil war.




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