(MENAFN- QNA) The UN Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to renew a mandate authorizing cross-border humanitarian aid deliveries into Syria without the government's consent for another 12 months.
Under the resolution, UN humanitarian assistance convoys carrying food and medical supplies will continue to enter Syria from Jordan and Turkey to bring aid to people in hard-to-reach areas.
Before the vote, Mark Lyall Grant, British ambassador to the UN, said the renewed mandate will allow aid to reach up to 2 million Syrians in need.
More than 12.2 million people in Syria are now in need of humanitarian assistance, the resolution stated, including 7.6 million internally displaced Syrians and 4.5 million people living in hard-to-reach areas, dpa reported.
The council also expressed "outrage at the unacceptable and escalating level of violence and the killing of more than 191,000 people" during the conflict that will enter its fourth year next March.
The cross-border aid mandate was first authorized by the council in July for a period of six months after a previous resolution demanding humanitarian access had failed to make a difference on the ground.
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