International donors will pledge $4.4 billion in aid of the Syrian conflict at a Brussels conference, a senior UN official says, well short of the amount hoped for.
“My best guess is that by the end of the day we will have heard pledges for 2018 of $4.4 billion,” Mark Lowcock, the head of UN aid agency UNOCHA, tells a news conference in Brussels.
“I want particularly to thank the EU, Germany and the United Kingdom who have made exceptionally large pledges today,” Lowcock says.
Pledges of a further $3.3 billion for 2019 and after were expected at the conference, which groups more than 80 countries, aid groups and agencies, he adds.
The UN official had earlier told AFP he hoped to see $8 billion pledged on Wednesday, warning that some programs for refugees and displaced Syrians may need to be cut if funds are not forthcoming.
— AFP
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