Syria doing best to improve humanitarian aid: Dy foreign minister

Geneva: Syria’s government is doing its best to improve humanitarian aid access, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said on Friday, a day after United Nations aid chief Valerie Amos urged the UN Security Council to act to improve access. [caption id=“attachment_1391283” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. AP[/caption] “While we have done our best and will continue to do our best, I think some of her statements were absolutely unacceptable,” Mekdad told a news conference in Geneva. “Mrs Amos, in many of her statements does not recognise that there is terrorism in Syria and there are terrorist organisations which are hindering the movement of goods and humanitarian assistance to many parts of Syria in addition to ignoring very important places where the assistance should go.” Reuters