WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd September, 2021) The international community should step up with its assistance to Syria as the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate under the US-imposed sanctions which are suffocating the people in the country, Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told Sputnik.
"Absolutely, yes, because the sanctions imposed by the United States are suffocating the Syrian people," Mekdad told Sputnik on Wednesday when asked whether the international community should step up humanitarian aid to Syria. "The level of poverty has increased, the lack of medicine has increased. Remarkably, we don't find even main medicine to treat the people who are suffering of cancer, of other diseases, even of coronavirus (COVID-19)."
