Kuwait Pledges $500Mn İn Un Aid To Syria

Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Tuesday pledged $500 million in humanitarian aid to help ease the Syria crisis.



"The Syrian crisis has devastated the country, killed more than 210,000 people and displaced some 12 million others in and outside the country, [who are] living in harsh conditions," Al-Sabah said at a UN donors' conference in Kuwait City.



He also said that the protracted crisis had deprived two million Syrian children of the right to education.



The emir urged UN Security Council (UNSC) member states to "put their differences aside and solve the destructive conflict in Syria," which has now entered its fifth year.



He went on to urge UNSC members to work on "ending grave human rights violations committed by all parties [in Syria] and punish those behind these crimes."



"The crisis has encouraged terrorist groups to flourish in this unstable environment," he said.



Representatives of 78 countries gathered in Kuwait City on Tuesday for a conference aimed at raising funds for UN aid to the Syrian people.



Tuesday's donors' conference is the third to be organized in Kuwait on the Syria crisis.



Syria's civil conflict, which broke out in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings, has left tens of thousands of people dead and millions of others displaced, both internally and externally.



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