US envoy welcomes Syria aid resolution

US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power told the Security Council that its Friday resolution "was a difficult resolution to obtain, but it should not have been. Many of the issues that come before this body are complicated; this is not." "It remains to be seen whether our action today will have the beneficial results we intend. Given its track record to date, the Syrian regime can be trusted only to deny what it has done and lie about what it will do," she added.Accordingly, "I call upon all Council members, and all members of the international community, to join in pressing Damascus - and any actor who fails to comply - to fulfill the terms of this resolution on a comprehensive and urgent basis. "There should be no more broken promises, no more delays, and no more coupling minor concessions with crimes that are so horrific, so systematic, and so recurrent that they have lost some of their power to shock the conscience," she urged. Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari told the Council that some of its members "have reduced the complicated Syrian scene with the Arab, regional and international interventions to a politicized humanitarian issue, deepening the humanitarian crisis.He said the Council's reading of the humanitarian situation in Syria is "biased, subjective," masks the grave interventionist dimensions, manipulates the humanitarian crisis and misleads international public opinion.He said the Council cannot deal with the humanitarian situation in his country without dealing with its roots, mainly the spread of the "terrorist Takfiri groups." French Ambassador Gerard Araud told reporters following the meeting that his delegation will seek "measures" against any party that does not comply with the resolution, casting doubt that the Assad regime will comply.