Including Syria and Gaza .. Washington pledges to deliver humanitarian aid to crisis areas around the world
The US Agency for International Development announced that it will deliver aid to residents of areas experiencing one of the most urgent humanitarian crises around the world.
USAID Director Samanta Power met with UN Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock, and discussed with him the humanitarian crises in Syria, Yemen, Gaza, and the Tigray region in Ethiopia and North and Central America.
In a statement, the agency confirmed that Bauer thanked the UN official “for his continuous call to allow the passage of aid across the border in northwestern Syria through the renewal and expansion of Security Council Resolution No. 2533.”
Power stressed, “The importance of renewing and expanding this mechanism is necessary to meet the increasing needs of Syrian civilians, especially with the worsening of the Corona pandemic crisis.”
The two parties discussed the worsening humanitarian needs in Gaza and support for ending the conflict.
Power also reaffirmed the US commitment to support the humanitarian response in Yemen, as obstruction of aid access to the north of the country and the ongoing manipulation of fuel exacerbate one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
Power and Lowcock discussed the growing risk of famine and the human rights crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, as well as the urgent need to ensure the safety of humanitarian workers and strengthen coordination in order to support an expanded response in Tigray.
Lowcock referred to “the urgent need for unimpeded humanitarian access and an end to hostilities in Tigray, as well as the concern of the United States about the interference of Ethiopian and Eritrean forces in humanitarian operations.”
The United States Agency for Development is affiliated with the federal government, and its mission is to provide aid and help countries and peoples to reduce poverty and strengthen democratic governance.
