Aid must be delivered to Syria

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Syrians are in need and humanitarian aid must be delivered to the country regardless of who is the ruler, former British envoy to Syria Henry Hogger says.   #Syria

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00:00And there's an argument, therefore, isn't there, going back to what we were saying earlier,

00:03for talking to whoever is in power in the interests of making sure that aid is distributed

00:10in an effective way?

00:11I absolutely agree with that.

00:12I mean, I think it's interesting that both, of course, both David Miliband and Tom Fletcher,

00:16who I was mentioning earlier, have very considerable diplomatic and political experience, as well

00:22as their current humanitarian roles.

00:25And I would expect them, therefore, to realize that there is actually a political case for

00:31bringing in humanitarian aid.

00:33First of all, doing so doesn't necessarily imply any judgment on recognition or acceptance

00:41of the authority that you're dealing with.

00:44There's plenty of other places around the world where humanitarian aid is being supplied,

00:51and with some very much nastier regimes in charge, in order to try and get to the ordinary

00:57people who suffer from those regimes.

01:00So the political point is clear.

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