The United Nations Friday issued an appeal for $84 million to help Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq. The Syrian Regional Response Plan is led by the U.N. refugee agency and is the result of a coordinated effort between seven U.N. agencies, 27 national and international non-governmental organizations (NGO), and host governments. “The plan is based on an estimate that in the next six months assistance will be needed to support some 100,000 people. This will mainly comprise of Syrian refugees, as well as some third-country nationals,” U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) spokesman Adrian Edwards told reporters in Geneva. “The plan does not cover humanitarian needs inside Syria. For that, a separate appeal, led by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is expected in the near future,” Edwards said.
