‘Syria unrest outstrips UN efforts’

February 28th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

On Wednesday, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos told reporters after briefing the Security Council that “the scale [of the crisis in Syria] is outpacing whatever we do on the response side.”

“Quite frankly, the pace at which we’re able to do this is much slower than the pace at which the crisis is evolving. I am also extremely concerned by the rising costs of this. We asked for $1.5 billion for our response [to the crisis] for the next six months,” said Amos, adding, “Those figures are already out of date, given the projections we had at the end of last year, and where we are now.”

She said that out of the amount pledged at a conference in Kuwait last month, only $200 million had been received.

“This is a crisis that is completely stretching our capacity,” Amos stated. “The way that these figures are going up on an almost daily basis, the rising cost of this crisis, mean that it is not business as usual.”

The UN estimates that since March 2011, more than 70,000 people have been killed and nearly one million others have taken refuge in countries around Syria.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of soldiers and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.

The Syrian government says that the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.

In an interview recently broadcast on German television, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that the government did not start the conflict and the militant groups were the ones killing Syrian citizens and destroying the country’s infrastructure.

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