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On Wednesday, UN humanitarian chief Valarie Amos said that a Security Council measure aimed to provide aid to more than nine million desperate Syrians was “not working”. According to Amos, instead of relieving the misery of the Syrians who urgently need help, the humanitarian crisis in the country has only worsened since the Security Council adopted Resolution 2139 in February. …

In a report on Wednesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said there has been no improvement in the access of foreign aid for millions of desperate Syrians, thereby violating a resolution passed in the Security Council two months ago. In the resolution, the first such humanitarian resolution on the Syrian civil war, the Security Council demanded that the armed opposition …