(Bloomberg) — The United Nations Security Council called for greater access to Ethiopia’s war-stricken Tigray region where as many as two million people require humanitarian assistance amid continued hostilities, according to a U.K. official.

“I think we all shared the view that the incremental progress we’ve seen so far is not enough,” Barbara Woodward, the U.K.’s permanent representative to the UN, said after a meeting of the Security Council in New York, referring to the issue of access to the northernmost area in Ethiopia.

The meeting was requested by the U.S., the U.K., France, Norway, Ireland and Estonia, which have expressed growing concern about continued hostilities in region. Though no official statement was issued after the meeting, diplomats briefed on the talks said Kenya, Tunisia, Niger, China and Russia are reluctant to put pressure on Ethiopia at this stage.