UN raises $7.7 billion in humanitarian aid to help tackle humanitarian crisis deepening in Syria and neighboring countries hosting millions of refugees
International anti-poverty organisation Oxfam said the amount pledged fell short of what is needed.
“We are on the cusp of all these multiple crises,” Riza said. “You see kids that are clearly now getting malnourished. You are seeing levels of malnutrition that we have never seen in the last nine years and this gets worse and worse if you don’t take action right now.”German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas pledged $1.8 billion on Germany’s behalf as he, too, warned that the global pandemic was exacerbating the grim realities of life in war-shattered Syria.
“We cannot and will not ignore the scale of the coronavirus threat in Syria, which has already been ravaged by almost a decade of conflict,” Trevelyan said. Lenarcic said at the end of the conference that $5.5 billion of the money pledged on Tuesday would be available this year and $2.2 billion for next year and beyond.
Diab called on the UN, the EU and friendly nations to “shield Lebanon from the negative repercussions" of sanctions, such asLowcock acknowledged that holding the donor conference at a time when economies around the world have been slammed by the coronavirus was tough.
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