UN Calls for Allotting $10 Billion to Aid Civilians in  Syria

The United Nations (UN) intends to urge donors in the international community to pledge to allot $ 10 billion to aid the Syrians who fled their country due to the civil war amidst threats of the Coronavirus (known also as CVOVID-19).

The fifth conference to protect the Syrian refugees from famine hosted by the European Union (EU) will ask $ 4.2 billion to provide aids inside Syria.

The participants in the conference will urge the donors to collect $ 5.8 billion to support refugees and the hosting countries in the Middle East.

It is worth noting that some 24 million Syrians need basic aids this year with an increase of 4 million people compared with the previous year.

Those who need humanitarian aids in the Syrian territories are the highest since the outbreak of the civil war in 2011.

Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has issued a statement that says that deteriorating living standards, economic hardships, and COVID-19 cause more famine, malnourishment, and illness in Syria.

Lowcock pointed out that fighting has reduced significantly in Syria but the civilians never harvest gains of peace.

On the other hand, Sergei Vershinin, Assistant of Russia's Foreign Minister, mentioned yesterday, Monday,  that the collapsing humanitarian situation was monitored only in the areas did not under the control of the Syrian government in Damascus.

The Russian diplomat said over a conference held at the headquarters of the UN Security Council via the video technology, to discuss the humanitarian in Syrian, that the parody is that the deteriorating in the living conditions of the Syrian population was monitored throughout the last year only after reduction of violence in most parts of Syria.

Vershinin warned that the areas in northwest and northeast of Syria see miserable conditions as the occupying forces take responsibility for the population there.

He went on to say that areas run by the legitimate government in Syria suffer from discrimination in allocating humanitarian aids.

The European countries discard the negative consequences of their sanctions on the humanitarian situation in Syria.