The UN is seeking $3.3-billion for people there and $5.5-billion for refugees in the region. There are 11.7 million people still needing emergency aid in Syria
Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, meets with Syrian refugee children at a camp in the village of Mhammara in the northern Lebanese Akkar region on March 9, 2019.The United Nations will seek billions of dollars in additional aid for Syria on Thursday, seeking to overcome fatigue among donors after eight years of civil war and divisions over how to deal with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, who recently visited Syria, said around 70 per cent of Syrian refugees live a “razor-edge” existence in poverty. U.S. Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey, who is expected at the Brussels conference, said in a statement that he would “reaffirm U.S. support for humanitarian assistance to all Syrians.”The conference also underscores Europe’s dilemma in its efforts to isolate Assad as the United States pulls back its troops and the Syrian leader emerges victorious from the conflict, backed by Russia and Iran, diplomats say.
Germany, France and the Netherlands are forthright in defending a policy of withholding reconstruction money until a transition away from Assad is under way.
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