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NEW YORK - The United Nations Security Council on Friday called on all countries to respect and protect aid workers and U.N. personnel, and strongly condemned all violence against them and "the unlawful denial of humanitarian access."The 15-member body adopted a Swiss-drafted resolution with 14 votes in favor, while Russia abstained.
ambassador, Pascale Baeriswyl, told reporters.Slovenia's deputy U.N. ambassador, Ondina Blokar, said that since 2003 at least 2,491 aid workers had been killed and more than 4,500 had been wounded or kidnapped around the world."These numbers continue growing with every month of ongoing armed conflict in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and elsewhere. This is simply inexcusable and unjustifiable," Blokar told the council.Most of the aid workers killed in Gaza worked for the U.N.
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