By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, July 16 (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Programme rushed on Wednesday to put monitors at Syrian border posts, and the U.N. children's agency UNICEF had aid ready for the first convoys to cross into rebel-held areas under the authorization of the U.N. Security Council. The Security Council on Monday approved humanitarian access without Syrian government consent into opposition areas at four border crossings from Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, even though Syria has warned it deems such deliveries an attack on its territory. The unanimously adopted resolution established for 180 days a monitoring mechanism for loading aid convoys in neighboring countries, which will then **tify Syria of the "humanitarian nature of these relief consignments." Diplomats, speaking on condition of a**nymity, said this mechanism would likely involve a handful of monitors at each approved border crossing - Al Yarubiyah on the Iraq border, Al-Ramtha from Jordan and Bab al-Salam and Bab al-Hawa from Turkey.
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Syria aid deliveries ready, rushing to put monitors in place: UN
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