{"id":44999,"date":"2014-07-14T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=729eca26ed5fbb080b6d9ab68f204f38"},"modified":"2014-07-14T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:45:59","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretary-welcomes-un-vote-to-help-over-1-3-million-syrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=44999","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Secretary welcomes UN vote to help over 1.3 million Syrians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> The headline figure has been corrected to read &#8216;Foreign Secretary welcomes vote to help over 1.3 million Syrians.&#8217; It originally read &#8216;4 million.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Foreign Secretary has welcomed the unanimous vote at the United Nations Security Council to enable UN aid delivery across Syria borders, without needing the consent of the regime, which will enable immediate access to 1.3 million people in hard to reach areas. As such, it marks a major step forward in the international community\u2019s efforts to respond to the horrendous human suffering in Syria. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the vote at the United Nations Security Council, the Foreign Secretary said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssad, propped up by his regime, has enforced a stranglehold over aid routes which has deprived millions of people access to food and medicine. Access to humanitarian aid is a right, and the denial of aid to starving and vulnerable people is a crime. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Resolution is aimed at breaking the regime\u2019s stranglehold on aid supplies.  It authorises the UN to use 4 additional border crossings to deliver humanitarian aid into some of the hardest to reach areas. It is the first Resolution of its kind, and I welcome the fact that all members of the Security Council have given it their support. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany vulnerable communities remain completely besieged because of the regime\u2019s starve or surrender tactics. So this process of cross-border aid delivery must start without delay.\u201d  <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The new Resolution seeks to build on UNSCR 2139 by giving the UN agencies, and other international aid donors, the authority to deliver aid across borders without the regime\u2019s consent.  It includes, for example, the establishment of UN border monitors responsible for checking aid deliveries before they enter Syria to ensure they contain only humanitarian supplies.  <\/li>\n<li>The International Development Secretary announced a further \u00a346.7million of new UK cross-border assistance on 4 July during her visit to southern Turkey, including to the Turkish-Syrian border. This brings total UK cross border humanitarian aid to \u00a3122million to date. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Secretary on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilliamJHague\">@WilliamJHague<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Secretary welcomes vote to end Assad stranglehold over Syrian aid routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}