UN Security Council authorizes Syria aid convoys
 

https://s1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0...3f5dc5e22a.jpgThe UN Security Council adopted a resolution Monday authorizing humanitarian convoys to Syria without the consent of the Damascus regime, to help more than one million civilians in rebel-held areas. The council -- including Russia and China, who have vetoed four Western-backed draft resolutions on Syria since the start of the conflict in 2011 -- unanimously approved the measure. The resolution will allow immediate aid deliveries to 1.3 million civilians in rebel-held areas, British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant told the council. "It marks a major step forward in the international community's effort to respond to the suffering in Syria," he said.




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