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More humanitarian work by UN will raise Syrian hopes

As the Geneva II conference resumes, let us hope that efforts like the evacuation of Homs will quickly be repeated in other areas in Syria.
Civilians carry their belongings as they walk towards a meeting point to be evacuated from a besieged area of Homs February 9, 2014. Six hundred people left the besieged ruins of rebel-held central Homs on Sunday, escaping more than a year of hunger and deprivation caused by one of the most protracted blockades of Syria's devastating conflict. The evacuees, mainly women, children and old men, were brought out by the United Nations and Syrian Red Crescent on the third day of an operation during which the aid

Today [Feb. 10], participants of Geneva II resume their deliberations to resolve the crisis in Syria.

There was a glimmer of success in Homs, where some of the civilian population was evacuated successfully by the UN team, and it is hoped that this very limited humanitarian achievement can become a example to be followed more broadly and rapidly in many other areas in Syria.

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