{"id":2523,"date":"2012-12-13T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2012-12-13T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T11:22:32","slug":"saudi-arabia-pledges-100-million-in-aid-to-syrian-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2012\/12\/13\/2523\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia pledges $100 million in aid to Syrian people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news2\/saudi-arabi.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Saudi Arabia pledged on Wednesday to donate $100 million in humanitarian aid to the Syrian people during a Friends of Syria meeting.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Speaking at the opening session of the talks, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Feisal said the formation of Syria\u2019s opposition coalition gave \u201ca new opportunity of hope.\u201d<br \/>Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani meanwhile, told the meeting in Morocco that Assad&#8217;s rule was finished after the 20-month-old uprising which has brought rebel fighters to the edge of Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This meeting has exceptional significance. It is taking place at a time when the Syrian people are about to complete their victory and achieve their legitimate aspirations for which they have sacrificed their blood and souls,&#8221; Sheikh Hamad said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our humanitarian and moral duty calls on us to provide support through legitimate means to those who are fighting against oppression and for freedom,&#8221; Sheikh Hamad said.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for assistance to ordinary Syrians, including refugees he said were living under appalling conditions as winter sets in, and proposed a donors&#8217; meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Arab and Western countries opposed to President Assad formally recognized the opposition National Coalition as sole representative of the Syrian people on Wednesday, the Moroccan hosts of a Friends of Syria said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, full recognition is given to the National Coalition as the sole representative,\u201d Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad-Eddine el-Othmani told a news conference after the meeting of representatives from 130 countries in the southern city of Marrakesh.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama recognized the National Coalition as the legitimate representative of the nation\u2019s people. It also blacklisted as a terrorist group the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, which U.S. officials fear seeks to hijack the revolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: <em><strong>Alarabiya.net<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia pledged on Wednesday to donate $100 million in humanitarian aid to the Syrian people during a Friends of Syria meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saudi Arabia pledges $100 million in aid to Syrian people - SunniOnline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2012\/12\/13\/2523\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saudi Arabia pledges $100 million in aid to Syrian people - 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