I can't understand what is the ig problem that aid can't be airlifted to the unfortunate Syrian citizens caught up in the fighting.
U.N. pleads with Syria to airlift aid to starving civilians
UNITED NATIONS | BY MICHELLE NICHOLS AND LOUIS CHARBONNEAU
A boy rides a bicycle near damaged buildings in the rebel held area of Old Aleppo, Syria May 5, 2016.
REUTERS/ABDALRHMAN ISMAIL/FILES
The United Nations, backed by the United States, Britain and other powers, urged the Syrian government on Friday to end all sieges and allow U.N. airdrops of aid to hundreds of thousands of people trapped across conflict-torn Syria.
Nearly 600,000 people are besieged in 19 different areas in Syria, according to the U.N., with two-thirds trapped by government forces and the rest by armed opposition groups and Islamic State militants.
U.N. aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council the world body would on Sunday ask Syria to approve airdrops or airlifts of aid into besieged areas where only partial or no land access had previously been granted, said French U.N. Ambassador Francois Delattre, president of the council for June.
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U.N. pleads with Syria to airlift aid to starving civilians
U.N. pleads with Syria to airlift aid to starving civilians
UNITED NATIONS | BY MICHELLE NICHOLS AND LOUIS CHARBONNEAU
A boy rides a bicycle near damaged buildings in the rebel held area of Old Aleppo, Syria May 5, 2016.
REUTERS/ABDALRHMAN ISMAIL/FILES
The United Nations, backed by the United States, Britain and other powers, urged the Syrian government on Friday to end all sieges and allow U.N. airdrops of aid to hundreds of thousands of people trapped across conflict-torn Syria.
Nearly 600,000 people are besieged in 19 different areas in Syria, according to the U.N., with two-thirds trapped by government forces and the rest by armed opposition groups and Islamic State militants.
U.N. aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council the world body would on Sunday ask Syria to approve airdrops or airlifts of aid into besieged areas where only partial or no land access had previously been granted, said French U.N. Ambassador Francois Delattre, president of the council for June.
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U.N. pleads with Syria to airlift aid to starving civilians