ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />The U.N. Security Council on Saturday unanimously adopted a resolution to boost humanitarian access in Syria.<br/> <br />The resolution also threatens to take "further steps" in the case of non-compliance, demands cross-border aid access and condemns rights abuses by the Syrian government and opposition armed groups.<br/> <br />Russia and China, which have shielded Syria's government on the 15-member Security Council during the country's three-year-long civil war, voted in favor of the resolution. They had previously vetoed three resolutions that would have condemned Syria's government and threatened it with possible sanctions.<br/> <br />"This resolution should not have been necessary. Humanitarian assistance is not something to be negotiated; it is something to be allowed by virtue of international law," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the council.<br/> <br />The resolution asks Ban to report back to the council in 30 days on the implementation of the reso
