PARIS, Feb 14 (Reuters) - France said on Tuesday it
had created an emergency fund for aid agencies looking to help
the Syrian people and would propose a similar one at an
international level next week when countries meet in Tunisia to
discuss the escalating crisis.
Paris had previously proposed "humanitarian corridors" with
Syrian approval or with an international mandate for shipping
food and medicine to alleviate civilian suffering while Damascus
cracks down on an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
Foreign Minister Alain Juppe met humanitarian organisations
on Tuesday and pledged 1 million euros to finance groups trying
to offer humanitarian help to Syria.
"(The minister) insisted that France is working at all
international levels to ensure the right to access the
population," said a foreign ministry statement.
International powers are due to meet in Tunis on Feb. 24 as
part of a newly-created "Friends of Syria Group" aimed at trying
to find a way of peacefully ending the conflict in Syria.
(Reporting By John Irish)
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