Sheik Khatib made the offer as the United Nations, scrambling to raise money to manage the humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict, reported at an international donor conference in Kuwait that a surprisingly strong number of pledges had come in, surpassing the $1.5 billion goal set by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. “Today we have seen global solidarity in action,” Mr. Ban said in a report about the conference on the United Nations Web site. “We have brought a message of hope to the millions of Syrians who have been affected by this terrible crisis.”
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:24:21 +0000