(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam and UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson jointly launched on Monday "Lebanon Crisis Response Plan" aiming to secure international aid amounting to USD 2.1 billion for the country to address the impacts of the Syrian conflict.
The document will serve as a roadmap that will galvanize the international community into shouldering their political and moral responsibilities for helping the victims of the Syrian crisis, the prime minister said at the launching ceremony.
It will help donors to specify the priorities of relief efforts for the Syrian refugees and bring about change in the situations at the refugees camps," he said.
"This document is the fruit of joint efforts between the UNDP and the United Nations family in Lebanon and the concerned ministries, especially the team of the Ministry of the Social Affairs led by Minister Rashid Derbas," Lebanon's NNA quoted Salam as saying.
"The aim of this plan is to determine what should be done to face the negative impact of the multi-faced crisis that we are facing due to the Syrian crisis," he affirmed.
"The evaluation of the damages inflicted upon many sectors and the likely risks on the short run showed that the needs are tremendous and that financial capacities are not enough. What made things worse is the fresh decision of the World Food Program to cease aids distribution.
"Time is not for our advantage because we are facing more attacks by terrorist extremists," Salam went on.
"The real effort shall start as of now, in order to wake the international community up so that it should assume its ethical and political duties towards Lebanon and towards the innocent victims of the Syrian crisis," he added.
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