(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Britain, Kuwait, and a number of other countries and organizations are to jointly host the Syria Donors Conference 2016 in the British capital in February, British foreign ministry announced Monday.
"We, the leaders of the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Kuwait and the United Nations, are increasingly concerned about the plight of the Syrian people," the ministry said in a press statement.
"Now is the time to act. So we will together host a conference on the Syria humanitarian crisis in London in early February 2016, building on previous conferences in Kuwait," it added.
The conference will increase funding in order to meet the needs of all those affected by the ongoing crisis inside Syria with the support of Syria's neighboring countries who have shown "enormous" generosity in hosting refugees to cope with the impact of the crisis, it indicated.
The event will also identify long-term funding solutions, covering 2016 and subsequent years, in addition to addressing the longer-term needs of those affected by the crisis, said the British ministry.
The joint conference will also find ways to create jobs and provide education, offering all those that have been forced to flee their homes greater hope for the future, it added.
Meanwhile, the British ministry called the international community to bear its responsibility in helping the 13.5 million vulnerable and displaced people inside Syria, as well as the 4.2 million Syrian refugees in neighboring countries.
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