BRUSSELS (REUTERS) - The United Nations (UN) will seek billions of dollars in additional aid for Syria on Thursday (March 14), seeking to overcome fatigue among donors after eight years of civil war and divisions over how to deal with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BRUSSELS - 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.
Syria has also become the world's largest refugee crisis, the UN says, with more than 5.6 million Syrians fleeing to Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt. Donors must contend with US President Donald Trump's demand that allies carry more of the burden. His government last year failed to submit a pledge, although US funding commitments eventually came in, EU diplomats said.
The EU has repeatedly made longer-term reconstruction support conditional on a UN-led peace process to end a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. Germany, France and the Netherlands are forthright in defending a policy of withholding reconstruction money until a transition away from Mr Assad is under way.
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