The Friends of Syria, consisting of several countries, including the US, the EU and the Arab League urged the Syrian opposition to unite in their fight against Assad.
At a meeting in New York, the Syrian opposition has been promised $45 million in non-lethal aid by the US, of which $30 million will be humanitarian aid.
“We are working to help them strengthen their networks, avoid regime persecution and document human rights abuses,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters.
“It is encouraging to see some progress toward greater opposition unity, but we all know there is more work to be done,
“It is no secret that our attempts to move forward at the U.N. Security Council have been blocked repeatedly, but the United States is not waiting,
“Conditions in Syria continue to deteriorate as the Assad regime relentlessly wages war on its own people,
“We see more bodies filling hospitals and morgues and we see more refugees fleeing their homeland and flooding into neighboring countries. The regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end so that the suffering of the Syrian people can stop and a new dawn can begin.”
