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06:33 16/06/2012 | MOSCOW, June 16 (RIA Novosti)



Besides sending humanitarian aid to Syria, Russia is also assisting UN humanitarian teams
working in the conflict-stricken country, UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and
Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Amos met on Friday in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Deputy Foreign
Minister Gennady Gatilov discussing the humanitarian situation in Syria among other issues.

The high-ranking UN official, who paid a visit to Syria in March, said about a million of people there
needed humanitarian assistance at that time.

According to her, Syrians mostly flee to Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and some to Iraq, as these
countries keep their borders open.

Some 27,000 Syrian refugees, who fled the country from the ongoing bloody conflict, were
registered in Lebanon, 24,000 in Turkey and 4,800 in Iraq, according to the UN data provided
by Amos.