A - The humanitarian situation in Syria is extremely serious. There are several hundreds of thousands of refugees in neighboring countries, 120,000 of whom have been registered by the High Commissioner for Refugees, in addition to a million internally displaced persons. Access to food, medicine and necessities has become problematic for thousands of families. France is fully mobilized in the face of this humanitarian emergency.

Very early on, last February, we established an emergency humanitarian fund for Syria.

We also raised this issue with our European partners at the last Foreign Affairs Council, at which it was decided to increase emergency humanitarian aid for Syria by an additional €20 million, bringing the total amount of aid from the EU and its member states to €90 million to contribute to meeting urgent needs in Syria and neighboring countries that are taking in a large number of refugees.

There is also a problem of access. We will discuss all these issues with our partners during our Security Council presidency.