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Syria: Humanitarian Aid

Question for Department for International Development

UIN HL3104, tabled on 13 November 2017

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are making use of UN Security Council Resolution 2165 to deliver (1) medical and other aid, and (2) necessary reconstruction goods, to the cantons of Jazira and Kobane in north-east Syria; and if not, why not.

Answered on

21 November 2017

DFID is delivering medical and other aid to north-east Syria, including Jazira and Kobane, from Damascus and cross border from Iraq. We recently announced a further £10 million to meet the needs of those displaced by conflict in Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, many of whom have fled to Kobane and Jazira.

The UK will not provide any support for reconstruction in Syria until a comprehensive, genuine and inclusive political transition is firmly underway.