.- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced on Saturday a five-year suspension of aid to Syria, where Bashar al-Asad regime has violently suppressed opposition movement launched on 15 March. "Given the facts" in Syria, the agency decided to suspend its aid plan 2012-2017, UNDP reported in a statement.
The decision aims to "ensure that the new program responds" to "the needs of the Syrian people." A new five-year assistance plan for the period 2012-2017, will be presented in June to the 36-member board of the UNDP. UNDP currently spends less than one million dollars a year in Syria. The statement said that so far the agency had worked with the Assad government to sustain economic growth, improve the judicial and administrative system, manage the environment, disaster prevention and fight against AIDS.
Syria is living the seventh consecutive week of an uprising against the regime in power that has left 539 civilians dead, according to the latest count of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 
The decision aims to "ensure that the new program responds" to "the needs of the Syrian people." A new five-year assistance plan for the period 2012-2017, will be presented in June to the 36-member board of the UNDP. UNDP currently spends less than one million dollars a year in Syria. The statement said that so far the agency had worked with the Assad government to sustain economic growth, improve the judicial and administrative system, manage the environment, disaster prevention and fight against AIDS.
Syria is living the seventh consecutive week of an uprising against the regime in power that has left 539 civilians dead, according to the latest count of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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