Record amount pledged for Syria

london - At the donor conference on Syria on Thursday in London, a huge amount for the victims of the civil war promised. The participants have more than $ 10 billion (around 9 billion) on assistance to refugees in the coming years.

The host of the conference, British Prime Minister David Cameron said there alone is over $ 6 billion for this year. However, that is less than the $ 9 billion that the UN and the neighboring countries of Syria have asked.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon spoke of a record. Never before has the world community in just one day so much money pledged for a specific crisis, says Ban Ki-moon.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was as president of the EU at the donors conference. He spoke, among others, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Minister Donald Tusk on tackling the crisis.