Summary
The United Nations secretary-general said the world body is poised to help get long-awaited humanitarian aid across borders into Syria even at crossings outside government control, in defiance of Damascus' insistence that all aid go through its authorities.
Ban has said about 9.3 million people -- more than 6.5 million displaced by the fighting -- are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance within Syria.
The U.N. Security Council has been pressured to back up a resolution passed earlier this year demanding access by all sides in the conflict for delivering humanitarian aid.
The lawyers declared that the U.N. faces "no legal barrier" to delivering humanitarian aid across borders and to supporting other aid groups in similar efforts.
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