UN says quake response exhausting aid stocks in Syria

"We cannot accept any impediments in this situation," said Catharina Boehme, from the World Health Organization's headquarters team.

Corinne Fleischer, the World Food Programme's Middle East regional director, said the WFP had pre-positioned stocks in northwest Syria of ready-to-eat food for 125,000 people and enough family rations, that need cooking, for 1.4 million people for one month."We are running out of stocks and we need access to bring new stocks in," Fleischer said, via video-link from Cairo.

"We have been distributing them since day one," said Sivanka Dhanapala, the UNHCR representative in the country.

God save Syria.

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