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<p>The UK is at the forefront of the humanitarian response to the Syria crisis. We
have pledged over £2.3 billion, our largest ever response to a humanitarian crisis.</p><p>The
UN estimates that, of 13.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance inside
Syria, 4.6 million are living in areas where humanitarian access is extremely restricted,
including 592,700 people living under siege. It is unacceptable and illegal to use
starvation as a weapon of war.</p><p>We are doing all we can to open up humanitarian
access. We have supported the UN and international NGOs since the start of the conflict
to deliver aid to UN-designated hard-to-reach and besieged areas. UK co-sponsored
UN Security Council Resolutions have enabled over 300 convoys of aid to reach vulnerable
people in hard-to-reach areas without the consent of the Syrian regime. We will continue
to use our position in the UN Security Council and International Syria Support Group
to push for unrestricted and unfettered humanitarian access, whilst maintaining the
pressure for a political settlement to bring the suffering of the Syrian people to
an end.</p>
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