KUWAIT CITY: International donors committed $3.8 billion in aid for Syrians affected by the grinding civil war at a donors’ conference in Kuwait Tuesday, as Lebanon’s share from the package remained unclear.
Delivering an address during the conference, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Tammam Salam said that his government had prepared a plan, the cost “amounting to over $1 billion,” in order to cope with the refugee crisis in his country.
“The government presents you a detailed plan amounting to over $1 billion ... featuring necessary developmental projects in water management, sewage systems, solid wastes, agriculture, energy, transportation, health, education and others,” Salam said.