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Syria ignores most UN requests to deliver humanitarian aid in 2015: UN official

The Syrian government ignored most United Nations requests to deliver humanitarian aid to some of its 4.6 million people in hard-to-reach and besieged areas in 2015 and only 620,000 received help, according to Stephen O’Brien, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, in a briefing on the humanitarian situation in Syria on Wednesday. It comes just two days before UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura is to facilitate intra-Syrian talks in Geneva. “The continued suffering of the Syrian […]