Major Donors Meeting Calls for Maintaining Efforts to Alleviate

The 9th meeting of major donors to Syria on Monday called for maintaining international efforts to promote humanitarian situation in Syria and alleviate suffering of the Syrian people. 
In a final communique issued today and carried by Kuwait News Agency, the conferees stressed the necessity of honoring pledges made during donors conferences, promoting humanitarian response plans and providing support for host countries of Syrian refugees that are facing many burdens. 
They referred to the importance of holding the 5th international donors conference so as to meet increasing needs of Syrian internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees, the communique said. 
They also reiterated the necessity of cooperation of the international community to find a political solution to the Syrian crisis in line with the UN Security Council Resolution 2254, Geneva I statement and relevant international resolutions, with the aim of stopping the bloodshed of Syrians, ending their suffering, returning IDPs and refugees to their homes, and beginning the reconstruction process. 
The participants urged the international community and the UNSC to work seriously to put pressures on the conflicting parties in Syria so as to lift siege imposed on the cities and towns, and facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid, it added. 
They affirmed the need to protect civilians in light of the shortage of food, medical supplies, medicine and warming in frigid winter in the besieged areas, it pointed out. 
They denounced the deadly incidents in eastern Aleppo that lead to demographical changes. 
The participants condemned the forcible displacement of tens of thousands of people to the countryside of Idlib and western Aleppo after imposing siege for three months that was associated with random shelling which killed hundreds of civilians, including children, women, medical staff, relief workers and civil defense teams. 
The meeting gathered representatives from Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt - host countries of large numbers of Syrian refugees - and some delegations from the World Bank and international humanitarian organizations.

Source: QNA