UNITED NATIONS
Karen Pierce, Britain’s Ambassador to the UN has asked the United Nations to provide more detailed information to the Security Council on which communities in Syria they cannot reach with humanitarian help ahead of what some diplomats say will likely be another showdown between Western powers and Russia over crossborder aid deliveries. In a letter to U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock, seen by Reuters, Karen Pierce also asked for information on “the types of aid deliveries for which the U.N. is required to solicit approvals from authorities in Damascus.” “The Security Council, as well as donors and the wider international community, need to understand who is receiving aid and if safe, unimpeded and sustained access, on the basis of need and need alone to the most vulnerable, is being obstructed,” Pierce wrote in the March 3 letter.— Reuters
