The head of European Union diplomacy, Josep Borrell, announced this Thursday support of more than two billion euros from the community bloc for Syrian refugees, 1,500 million mobilized this year and the rest in 2024.
“I am pleased to confirm the promise that I made last year, on behalf of the European Union, of 1.5 billion euros for the benefit of Syrians, refugees and their host communities in the region, for this calendar year 2023”, declared Josep Borrell, in the Belgian capital.
Speaking at the ministerial session of the 7th Brussels Conference on the future of Syria and the region, the High Representative of the European Union for the Common Foreign and Security Policy pledged that, “in the calendar year 2024, the European Union will provide 560 million euros”.
According to Josep Borrell, “the objective of the annual conferences in Brussels has always been to show a beacon of hope for the Syrian people.”
“We are here today [quinta-feira] To help keep that hope alive, I hope we continue to look for a way forward,” he said.
The “most sincere hope” of the head of community diplomacy is also that “during the next year different approaches can be combined to move towards peace in Syria,” he added.
“I have already laid out very clearly the approach of the European Union, it remains unwavering. However, that does not mean that we are not willing to explore, with our partners, all possible ways to get the Syrian regime to commit to a solution. policy for the conflict in Syria”, underlined Josep Borrell.
This Thursday the ministerial meeting on the future of Syria and the region will take place in Brussels, after meetings with Syrian civil society, decision-makers and operational partners were held on Thursday.
The Brussels Conference on the Future of Syria and the Region, now in its seventh annual edition, aims to address humanitarian and critical issues affecting Syrians in Syria and neighboring countries, as well as those affecting communities surrounding host Syrian refugees in Syria.
The idea is to strengthen the international community’s political and financial support for Syria’s neighboring countries, namely Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, as well as Egypt and Iraq.
Source: TSF
