
Blinken calls on UN Security Council to increase humanitarian access to Syria
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Secretary of State Tony Blinken addressed the United Nations Security Council Monday in an at-times passionate plea to increase desperately needed humanitarian access to Syria.
In remarks delivered virtually in his capacity as top US diplomat, Blinken called for the Security Council to reauthorize and reopen the two closed border crossings and reauthorize the one border crossing that remains open to allow aid to reach the people of Syria -- and invoked his own young children in thinking about the crisis. "The Security Council takes up so many challenges that are complicated. This is not one of them," Blinken said. "The lives of people in Syria depend on getting urgent help. We have to do everything in our power to create ways for that aid to get to them, to open pathways, not to close them."
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