NEWYORK,(ST)_ The UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said that pledges to help the Syrians arrived at 1.5 billion dollars adding, ” We received $ 200 million and wait to receive the amount of 1.3 billion dollars and members of the UN Security Council vowed to send these funds as soon as possible
“We are cooperating with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and with the Syrian government and continue to do so and also with what she called the coalition of Syrian opposition on the ground “, Amos added in a press conference on Thursday.
“We are keen to work not only in Damascus and we have been stationed in the city of Homs since January.” She added . “If some countries that give “Syrian coalition” money and consider these funds as part of the commitments they launched in Kuwait conference they have to tell us about the way funds can be distributed,” Ramos noted.
T.F