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Tom Fletcher says Syria shows fragile recovery and urges $1.5 billion in immediate aid
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Tom Fletcher briefed the council on cautious humanitarian gains in Syria — return movements, market and service restoration — while warning of regional spillover, mines and a severe funding shortfall; he urged sustained diplomacy, $1.5 billion in prioritized aid and longer‑term recovery investment.
Tom Fletcher told the council that Syria is showing “a more positive trajectory” after years of conflict but warned gains are fragile and at risk without urgent action. He said millions of people are returning, markets are reviving and “more lights [are] coming back on,” but he urged realism alongside hope.
Fletcher, who said he visited Syria in December 2024 and again last month with his UNDP colleague Alexander Krauss, described a recovery agenda he said builds on trust with Syrian authorities. He said the humanitarian needs and response plan was jointly launched on April 2 — the first such plan launched inside Syria and with the Syrian government — and that Damascus has extended dollarization for six months to ease liquidity and speed implementation.
“We jointly launched the humanitarian needs and response plan on April the 2nd,” Fletcher said, and he reported that in quarter one his offices dispersed $84 million from…
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