(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, Kristalina Georgieva, Tuesday welcomed Resolution 2165 on humanitarian access in Syria, which was unanimously adopted by the UN Security Council yesterday.
"It marks a step forward in our ability to relieve the suffering of Syrians caught between fighting lines in a war seemingly without end," she said in a statement.
The EU official noted that from now on UN agencies will be able to travel across borders without receiving the prior authorisation of the Government of Syria.
"I pray that hard-to-reach and besieged populations, including the estimated 200,000 people trapped inside Eastern Aleppo City today, will benefit rapidly from this development," said Georgieva.
She said that the Resolution will expand the delivery of life-saving assistance by the most direct routes to those in greatest need and in particular across four international border crossings. It will speed assistance to nearly three million people, among them children, women and the elderly, who have not received regular relief aid for many months.
The European Commission has allocated three million euro to the Aleppo emergency out of its total humanitarian funding of 615 million euro to the Syria crisis.
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