Syria has OKed three of 33 U.N. aid access requests in 2015: official

[Sally]

Hopefully Syria will see fit to allow more aid to get through.

World | Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:49pm EDT
Related: WORLD, UNITED NATIONS, SYRIA
Syria has OKed three of 33 U.N. aid access requests in 2015: official
UNITED NATIONS | BY MICHELLE NICHOLS

• (Reuters) - The Syrian government has only allowed the United Nations to deliver aid to three of the 33 sites it has requested access to this year, aid chief Valerie Amos said on Thursday as she urged the U.N. Security Council to take "concrete steps."

Syrian troops removed surgical, medical and reproductive health supplies from two convoys granted access, Amos told the council. Medical supplies for just 58,000 people had reached some of the 4.8 million people in hard-to-reach areas, she said.

"I ask this council to make it clear to the government of Syria that these convoys must be allowed to proceed and their security forces should allow the free passage of all supplies to people in need," Amos told the 15-member council.

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[aris2chat]

was crime. Shame the UN won't take out back and woop him
Personally I rather he suffer the death of a thousand cuts (minus just a few) drizzled with lemon juice, then he can be hung drawn and quartered