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Kerry: World Food Programme to drop aid into besieged Syria towns
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWorld powers call on the United Nations to carry out air drops over besieged areas in Syria as regime blockades in rebel-held areas are stopping all food and medical aid in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.
“Starting on June 1, if the UN is denied humanitarian access to any of these designated areas, the International Syria Support calls on the World Food Programme to immediately carry out a program for air bridges and air drops to all of those areas in need,” US Secretary of State John Kerry says after conflict talks in Vienna.
— AFP
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