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    RUSSIA TO SEND HUMANITARIAN AID TO SYRIAN ARMENIANS ABUSED BY MILITANTS IN KESSAB

    18:46 02/04/2014

    BEIRUT, April 2 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will send humanitarian aid to
    Syrian Armenians who suffered abuse from local militants in Kessab
    within several days, Sergei Stepashin, Chairman of the Imperial
    Orthodox Palestine Society (IOPS ), told RIA Novosti Wednesday.

    "At a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad we were informed
    that humanitarian aid collected by IOPS will be sent to Syrian
    Armenians who became victims of violent attack on their village
    [Kessab]," Stepashin said.

    IOPS delegation headed by Stepashin held a meeting with Syrian
    President Bashar Assad, Prime Minister Wael al-Khalq, and members of
    the Syrian Cabinet on Tuesday.

    "We have already sent $2.5 million in aid," Stepashin asserted.

    He also added that all the funds were collected by Russian citizens.

    Home to over 2,000 ethnic Armenians the town of Kessab is located in
    Syria's Latakia province. The town fell into rebels' hands on March
    21 when al-Qaeda backed militants crossed into Syria from Turkey and
    seized the village after a brutal battle with Syrian troops.

    The Armenian government later called on the UN to protect Kessab.

    Russian Foreign Ministry also expressed concern over militants'
    attack on Kessab.

    "The seizure by extremists of the town of Kessab elicited a broad
    response in Armenian communities throughout the world," Russian
    Foreign Ministry said in its March statement.

    Moscow has previously directed humanitarian aid to crisis-hit Syria,
    accusing the US of encouraging extremists who are financing terrorism
    and supplying terrorist groups with weapons.

    Spending on foreign aid by Russia reached $458 million in 2012,
    while the world's major aid donors spent $125.6 billion, according
    to the country's finance ministry.

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