Call for urgent preparations for Syrian air drops

Syria's authorisation of some aid convoys to besieged towns is "at best a drop in the ocean" and the UN must urgently prepare to make air drops to areas most in need of humanitarian help, France's UN ambassador said.

The Syrian government announced a day earlier that it approved the delivery of aid to 36 "restive areas" and partial deliveries to eight other areas in June. The five-year-old civil war in Syria has killed some 250,000 people.