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Print This Post Print This Post February 23, 2012

Tunis Conference Aims to Pressure Syria’s Assad on Aid, Political Change

 

Kuwait Foreign Affairs Minister Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, arrives in Tunis, on February 23, 2012, to participate in the conference dedicated to the crisis in Syria.

Source: VOA.com

By: Al Pessin

Posted: Feb. 23rd. 2012

Representatives of more than 70 countries and organizations are gathering outside the Tunisian capital, Tunis, for a conference Friday aimed at supporting the Syrian opposition. Getting aid to civilians caught up in Syria’s violence will be high on the agenda.

The officials are gathering for the first meeting of what is now called the Friends of the Syrian People — a movement that came in reaction to the Russian and Chinese vetoes of a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have condemned the Syrian government.

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