BEIJING, Oct. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- The UN Security Council has called for immediate access into Syria to provide desperately needed aid. The unanimous statement was a quick follow up to the Security Council’s first legally binding action to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria. Britain’s UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant called the presidential statement a very welcome, positive step after years of paralysis in the Security Council.

Mark Lyall Grant, British Ambassador, said, "I want to emphasize that there is an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe going on in Syria - 6.8 million people in need, over three million people are living in poverty, are starving, are caught in the cross-fire, are being displaced. Every 15 seconds a new refugee is created. One in five schools has been damaged and put out of action. And this suffering has been exasperated by obstacles that have been put in the way of humanitarian agencies, both of the UN and other non-governmental organizations."

(Source: CNTV.cn)