Syria permits aid workers to enter 4 provinces
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Syria's government has agreed to a written deal with the United Nations and other international organizations that would allow aid workers and supplies to enter four hard-hit provinces, U.N. officials announced Tuesday.
The agreement with Damascus and representatives of the government in Geneva should allow convoys with supplies and aid workers from nine U.N. agencies and seven other non-governmental organizations to enter Daraa, Deir el-Zour, Homs and Idlib within days, said John Ging of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
"Whether this is a breakthrough or not will be measured in the coming weeks," Ging told reporters Tuesday in Geneva after emerging from a closed-door session to discuss the dire humanitarian situation in Syria.
Ging said the government has pledged to grant visas and clear up other bureaucratic hurdles that have blocked help from being delivered, and he hopes to have workers and supplies entering within "days, not weeks."
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