Italy will allocate $400 million for humanitarian aid to Syria

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Paolo Gentiloni, said today at the donor conference on Syria in London that the country was to allocate $400 million for humanitarian assistance to Syrians who have suffered in the conflict.

This year the organizers of the conference are going to attract a record sum of $9 billion. Nearly $8 billion will be gathered during the UN-coordinated campaign of dozens of charity organizations, another $1.2 billion will be gathered at the request of the countries bordering Syria, RIA Novosti reports.