Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, left, speaks with Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi during a meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 27, 2024. Ministers meet Monday for the eighth Brussels Conference on “Supporting the future of Syria and the region”. Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 27, 2024.
This year’s pledged total includes 5 billion euros in grants — about 3.8 billion euros for 2024 and 1.2 billion euros for the next year and beyond — and 2.5 billion euros in loans.Officials say an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon kills two people near a hospital The conference brought back the urgency of trying to revitalize a gridlocked U.N.-led roadmap to end the conflict even as the mood in host countries turns increasingly hostile towards Syrian refugees.
Aid organizations and most Western countries believe such places don’t exist and that conditions in Syria are not yet conducive to safe returns.to allow refugee returns, reiterated those calls at the conference. Cyprus, which says it has been struggling to cope with surging Syrian migration, was among them, and Hungary echoed similar sentiments.