UN reports improved aid access in Syria, but outlook bleak

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By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Humanitarian access in Syria has improved since the U.N. Security Council last month authorized the delivery of emergency aid across the Syrian border without the government's consent, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report. "All parties to the conflict continue to deny access to humanitarian assistance in an unjustifiable manner," Ban said. "Hundreds of thousands of people live under siege." The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2165 last month, which authorized aid access at four border crossings from Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, even though Syria had warned it deemed such deliveries incursions into its territory.

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