President of the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC), Salem al-Meslet, visited the office of the Assistance Coordination Unit (ACU) in the Turkish city of Gaziantep and met with its executive director and department managers. He checked up on the progress of work and the projects that ACU is currently implementing.
Al-Meslet commended ACU’s work, stressing its important role in supporting all Syrians as a national institution that works to maximize the impact of the assistance being provided to the Syrian people by coordinating efforts of donors, executive agencies and local partners.
He stressed the importance of monitoring the needs of the population in the liberated areas and coordinating the efforts with the supporting and implementing agencies, in addition to paying more attention to the vital areas such as education, healthcare and support for the IDPs.
Al-Meslet talked about the decisions that the SOC’s General Assembly has recently made as part of the reform process. He stressed that the SOC is following this step by completing the expansion consultations and co-opting the effective representatives on the ground.
Moreover, al-Meslet pointed out that the SOC received positive responses to these decisions from institutions, revolutionary bodies, unions, youth groupings and Syrian communities in the host countries, stressing that this created a considerable incentive to proceed with the reform process.
For his part, ACU’s Executive Director, Muhammad Hasno, welcomed the reforms undertaken by the SOC, stressing the need for them to be positively reflected on the Syrian people and Syrian humanitarian organizations.
Hasno spoke about the need to confront the conditions imposed on civil society organizations such as the double standards of the United Nations organizations, which are excluding the free Syrian institutions from coordination while coordinating their operations with the Assad regime.
Meanwhile, Director of ACU’s Information Management Unit said that they have 1,100 points in the liberated areas, adding that these points help carry out in-depth and comprehensive studies on health conditions and monitor diseases such as covid-19 and leishmaniasis, in addition to other studies on education, the needs in the IDP camps and displacement movement.
(Source: SOC’s Media Department)
