Wednesday, Mar 07, 2012
DAMASCUS (AFP)--Syria is ready to cooperate with a visiting United Nations humanitarian delegation seeking access to battered protest cities, Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said Wednesday as he met a top U.N. official.
The state SANA news agency said that Moallem, in his meeting with U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos, "underlined Syria's commitment to cooperate with the delegation within the framework of the respect, sovereignty and independence of Syria and in coordination with the foreign ministry."
Amos's two-day visit comes after an international outcry over the previous refusal of President Bashar al-Assad's regime to let her in, despite mounting concern about the plight of trapped civilians.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
07-03-12 1314GMT
