Mikdad meets UNICEF Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa

Damascus, SANA- Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Dr. Fayssal Mikdad, received on Monday the UNICEF Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa, Adele Khader and discussed with her the organization’s domestic and regional activities.

Both sides discussed also the impact of multiple global crises on children, their health and education, and the need for intensive global efforts to confront such impacts.

Mikdad stated the deep effects of the terrorist war and the inhumane economic sanctions imposed by Western countries on various sectors in Syria, especially on education, health and children, pointing out that wars have always had a disastrous effect on children and women, what means that the competent organizations and bodies concerned with children’s rights, especially UNICEF, have exert more efforts to provide support to these children and help them overcome these effects and challenges.

Mikdad appreciated the organization efforts done in cooperation with the Syrian national authorities and the relevant ministries to provide support to children in Syria, stressing the importance of increasing work on early recovery projects, especially the rehabilitation and restoration of schools and health institutions that were destroyed by terrorist groups in various Syrian regions, affirming the great attention given by the state Syrian for children.

In her turn, the regional director of the organization appreciated Syria’s support to facilitate the organizations activities, praising the high level of coordination and cooperation reached by the organization’s relationship with all national partner authorities in its projects and the facilities that the organization enjoys to implement its humanitarian projects and programs.

Khadr presented the organization’s plans and projects that it is implementing in various fields within the scope of work of UNICEF and in cooperation with the Syrian national authorities in addition to some issues related to bilateral cooperation between the organization and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants.

Nisreen / Bushra / Amer