Al-Halqi Renews Call on Displaced Syrian Families Abroad to Return Home

DAMASCUS, (ST) – The government provides necessary care and free basic relief services to all citizens affected by the ongoing crisis, Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said on Wednesday.

Chairing a meeting for the Higher Relief Committee, Al-Halqi regretted some attempts by neighboring countries to exploit the humanitarian situation of the displaced Syrians in refugee camps  through putting hand on sent international assistance and transferring it into their own accounts, pointing out that just a small part of this assistance goes to the refugees.

The premier urged all the Syrian families in refugee camps to “rid themselves from the humiliating and insulting conditions they suffered  in these camps and to return to their homeland,” reiterating that the government is ready to provide necessary facilitations and requirements, including food, shelter, clothes, and medicines to those who come back to contribute to the process of re-building the homeland.

He condemned the misleading media which has been conveying a false image about what is going on in  Syria so as the displaced Syrians stay abroad and keep being blackmailed.

 “Syria has great diverse potentials. It has a big strategic reserve of basic materials including foodstuff, oil derivatives and medicine,” affirmed al-Halqi, pointing out that the government is working to rehabilitate and reconstruct the buildings and infrastructure destroyed within the events in the country and that it will continue to provide basic services to citizens nationwide.

He noted that the government has decided to build 10.000 housing units in order to provide housing to the terrorism-affected families to stay there until the crisis ends and they return to their original areas.

Challenges and obstacles facing the wok of the Higher Relief Committee and ways of finding a mechanism that guarantees the arrival of aid convoys to all Syrian areas under the government’s supervision were discussed during the meeting.

“The Syrian government won’t  allow any aid convoy to pass without its permission,” the Premier said.

He urged the committee’s members to achieve social justice, enhance coordination with nongovernment organizations and reactivate the role of people’s organizations and vocational unions as well as civil society associations to attain the committee’s hoped-for goal.

Al-Halqi reasserted that Syria will emerge from the crisis victorious and stronger thanks to the Syrian people’s steadfastness and belief in the fact the only solution to the crisis is to implement the proposed political program all over the Syrian land.  

Members of the committee highly appreciated the government’s financial and moral support for the committee, stressing that this “crisis government” is working under extraordinary circumstances. 

H. Mustafa