Syria: No aid without permission

Syria has said any attempt to deliver humanitarian aid to rebel-controlled areas without government approval is tantamount to “an attack on the state” as well as its territorial integrity and political independence.

The country’s United Nations ambassador Bashar Ja’afari sent a letter to the world body’s secretary general Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council from Syrian and Arab lawyers protesting against a draft council resolution that would authorise the delivery of humanitarian aid into Syria through four border crossings without approval from President Bashar Assad’s government.