Kuwait delivered its pledged $1 million donation for Syria to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday (April 5th), Kuwait's official news agency (KUNA) reported Friday.
The donation will be used to aid Syrian refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries during the current conflict.
Ambassador Mansour Ayyad al-Otaibi, Kuwait's Permanent Representative to the UN, delivered the check to Udo Janz, the head of UNHCR's office in New York.
"The donation is part of the state of Kuwait's keenness to provide humanitarian assistance and aid to Syrian refugees" in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, al-Otaibi said.
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عادل العتابي
2012-11-21
The international community must propose an urgent plan to contain the Syrian crisis, especially the crisis of the Syrian refugees that is turning into a human disaster in the true sense of the word. The world States must provide more food aids to the Syrian people, whose shops and agricultural lands were destroyed because of the arson or the shelling. We must evacuate the Syrians from the areas that are being targeted by Bashar Al-Assad. We are also required to provide medical supplies and field hospitals urgently because the regime of Al-Assad has been recently targeting the doctors in particular. It also targeted all the private and public hospitals as well as the fiddle hospitals, where the free Syrians are treated. The regime of Bashar Al-Assad practices an annihilation of the Syrians by targeting the Syrian cities, hospitals, bakeries, and all the vital food locations randomly. This is part of his plan to annihilate the Syrian people, which is currently in front of a turning point. The increasing number of the refugees over the Syrian-Iraqi borders to Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan is very high as they are trying to escape from the random shelling and the crimes against humanity that is being committed in Syria. All the States must move forward to stop bloodshed and the world major powers and public figures inside and outside Syria to make Bashar stop the atrocities against his people.
عباس سلمان
2012-4-12
The regime announced its defection from itself, including Bashar al-Assad, and joining the opposition and free army. Syria became free and the revolution triumphed. Congratulations without Kofi Annan and without Barbkian. The free army reconciled with its brothers in the regular army and agreed not to kill each other because yesterday they were eating from the same bowl (a bowl where the rice and bulgur wheat in the army are put). O Homs, your wounded and whining voice made me cry. I am your loyal son. O Homs, do you remember? We grew up together. We dreamed together and then years separated us! In my heart, there is great yearning for you love and there is nostalgia. On your gates, they painted death, and deep hatred, they planted daggers of treachery in the breasts of jasmine.