Syrian refugees waiting to cross border, Turkish PM

Wealthy countries throughout the world have pledged billions to help ease the Syrian migrant crisis after British Prime Minister David Cameron urged nations on Thursday at the global donors’ conference in London to step up.

Different countries should also lend a helping hand and provide emergency aid to Syria and its neighbouring countries that have sheltered Syrian refugees, and take action to help the refugees find jobs and help the children receive necessary education, he said.

The meeting got under way hours after fragile peace talks in Geneva were suspended amid protests by the opposition over the Syrian government’s escalating offensive against rebels around the city of Aleppo, where a human rights monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said 40,000 people fled this week alone.

Meanwhile, rebels in the Syrian city of Aleppo are now surrounded from the north, south and east following advances by government forces and pro-regime fighters. Turkey’s prime minister estimated that about 70,000 Syrians have fled the bombing and are headed toward Turkey.

Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood said it is necessary to raise more money or “another one million people will turn their back on Syria”.

” ‘We are doing our best against very hard odds, ‘ he said, but added: ‘We have reached our limit”.

He said that Turkey’s decision to allow Syrians to work was not an “economic decision” but a “humanitarian” one.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered 2.3 billion euros ($2.6 billion) by 2018 at the “Suppor …”

But Ms Bishop says taken collectively, Australia’s financial aid to military, humanitarian and refugee settlement from Syria and Iraq has totalled more than AU $1.5 billion to date.

“We are seeing a major humanitarian crisis that has been in place since 2012 and there is a need for the worldwide community to respond to the dire needs of people on the ground who don’t have access to basic food supplies, don’t have access to education and have quite literally been bombed out of their own homes”.

Cameron said participants had pledged nearly $6 billion for 2016, and another $5 billion by 2020.

Jubeir told reporters the Syrian government delegation “was not serious” about peace negotiations and that Russian Federation had intensified its military operations in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Turkey is now hosting more than 2.7 million Syrian refugees, and is regarded as a gateway to Europe, with dozens of Syrians risking their lives every day to attempt to migrate to neighboring Greece.

Kerry said he spoke by telephone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Thursday, and the two agreed to continue discussing “how to implement the cease-fire”.

Meanwhile, Britain has only accepted a few thousand Syrian refugees, with millions in camps waiting for help.