United Nations, Rajab 24, 1435, May 23, 2014, SPA -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that the United Nations 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. In a report, Ban said that access to humanitarian aid for millions of people trapped in the three-year conflict remains "unpredictable and woefully inadequate" and that Bashar al-Assad's regime has "failed" to care for its people. The U.N. Security Council has been pressured to back up a resolution passed earlier this year demanding access for delivering humanitarian aid. "We are ready to put in place arrangements at key border and line crossings to facilitate, improve and monitor access" including at crossings "currently outside the government's effective control," Ban said in the report. --SPA 11:29 LOCAL TIME 08:29 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w