Japan’s Additional Humanitarian Assistance in Response to the Syrian Crisis

October 2013

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced, at the General Assembly on 26 September, that Japan will provide additional humanitarian assistance to Syria and surrounding countries in the amount of approximately US$60 million.(see Annex for breakdown)   Japan’s humanitarian support since the beginning of the crisis in the spring of 2011 now totals, together with the assistance package above, approximately US$155 million.   In addition to humanitarian assistance, Japan also pledged an ODA loan amounting to US$ 120 million to the Government of Jordan with a view to alleviating its financial burden of caring for Syrian refugees.     ►Annex

 

 

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