The Czech Republic has sent humanitarian aid worth three million crowns, including mobile kitchens, wheel chairs, crutches, medical dressings and other healthcare material, to Syria aboard a military plane, the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s press section told CTK.
The aid, prepared in cooperation with the Czech Red Cross, was taken over by workers of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, who will secure its distribution to Syrian internally displaced persons in isolated areas.
“The Czech Republic has succeeded in getting a humanitarian aid supply to Syria. It is intended for people in the areas that have been cut off from other aid supplies for long,” Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said.
The Foreign Ministry justifies the aid saying the Czech Republic is interested in a quick and efficient solution to the migrant crisis.
The Czech Republic considers the main priority to secure a political compromise of all parts in the conflict and observe the truce, it added.
Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Tlapa said in April the Czech Republic might release up to 200 million crowns in aid to Syria in the next three years if the government approved it, Prague Daily Monitor reported.
