Federal Foreign Office increases food aid for Syria

Millions of people who had to flee from the savage war in Syria depend on assistance for their survival, especially in light of the imminent winter. It cannot be that families have to suffer from hunger and cold because aid organisations are unable to take care of them due to a lack of funds.

In the Berlin Communiqué of 28 October, the international community affirmed its responsibility not to abandon the refugees from Syria and their host countries. We must now deliver on this commitment by taking action.

We have therefore just provided the World Food Programme with another 15 million euros for food aid in Syria, Jordan and Turkey from our last budget reserves for 2014.

Furthermore, we have decided to make available another 25 million euros for winter relief, polio vaccination campaigns and other emergency assistance measures taken by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.