#Assad calls for increase aid access without “compromising sovereignty”
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A handout picture released by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on April 24, 2014 and taken the same day shows residents of #syria's besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, south of Damascus, gathering to receive food aid from UNRWA. (Photo: AFP / UNRWA)
Syria’s President #Bashar_al-Assad has said government agencies should increase cooperation on aid work but it must be done without “compromising national sovereignty,” state media reported. #UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last month none of the warring parties in Syria was meeting UN demands for aid access and demanded the Security Council take action on violations of international law. read (...)