Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
News from Middle East Monitor, January 9, 2025
Editor’s note: When is the last time anyone noted that the population of Syria is “Food Insecure”. I suppose that “recent improvements” include US release of some of Syria’s wheat from the area they occupy in the East. Then we have “millions of people resumed receiving aid” but (of course) more is needed. There hasn’t been time for the temporary waiver of US Caesar Sanctions to work, but since this sort of thing has had little effect in the past, we shouldn’t expect much. Meanwhile, Turkey is sending Syrians home. The one hope Syrians may have had for the new government is the hope of sanctions ending, resulting in heat/gas and food and medicine, then rebuilding. But it looks like what they can look forward to is more aid, more than when their needs were being ignored during Bashar Assad’s time. Sovereignty is not on the horizon.
Syria’s humanitarian situation, even after recent improvements (?), is still dire, UN emergency relief coordinator, Tom Fletcher, said Wednesday, Turkish daily, Daily Sabah reports.
According to the report, in an address to the UN Security Council in New York, Fletcher said security had remained steady (is he talking about total chaos?) since the overthrow of the long-time dictator, Bashar Assad, early December and millions of people had resumed receiving aid, but that more support is needed.
‘Nearly 13 million Syrians are still acutely food insecure,’ Fletcher told.
US, UK, French, Italian and German foreign ministers are due to gather in Rome Thursday night.
Talks in the five big NATO nations – the Quint – that the Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, is hosting will be focused on the Middle East.
One representative will go to the meeting on behalf of German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock.
