UN says readying food stocks for 1.5M in Syria

The United Nations said on Thursday that it was readying food stocks for 1.5 million people in Syria as part of a 90-day emergency contingency plan to help civilians deprived of basic supplies after nearly a year of conflict.

"More needs to be done," John Ging of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), told a one-day Syrian Humanitarian Forum being held in Geneva, describing the situation in Syria as "very fluid". (Reuters)