Syrian ambulances are short of fuel, but the United States is still stealing oil？ Syrian officials criticized

　　BEIJING, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) According to the Tass news agency, Syrian Ambassador to Russia Bashar al-Jaafari said in a meeting with South Ossetian leader Alain Gagloyev on the 10th that the EU and other western countries are actually refusing to provide humanitarian assistance to the earthquake-stricken areas in Syria.

　　It is reported that on the same day, Gagloyev visited the Syrian Embassy in Moscow and expressed condolences to the Syrian people on the devastating earthquake in Syria.

　　Jaafari said, "It has been five days since the earthquake, but the EU and other western countries have not provided any assistance to China. Syria has been sanctioned by (Western countries) for 11 years, and we don’t have any equipment to save people from the ruins now. "

　　Jaafari pointed out that due to western sanctions, Syria has encountered difficulties in responding to post-earthquake relief. "The United Nations sent the first humanitarian aid convoy to Syria yesterday. Unfortunately, the West politicizes everything, even humanitarian aid. Imagine that our ambulances don’t even have fuel to transport the wounded, while the United States has been stealing our natural gas and oil and transporting it to a third country. "

　　On the 6th local time, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey near the Syrian border. Syria has experienced years of war and unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States, which has caused profound disasters to the economy and people’s livelihood. The recent strong earthquake has made the humanitarian situation worse. The international community has urged the United States to lift sanctions against Syria.

　　Pei Kairu, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Syria, said that emergency rescue should not be politicized, and we should pay more attention to what the urgent problems are to help those men, women and children who may survive. Syria has experienced 12 years of war and turmoil, and now it encounters such a disaster in winter, which makes this country unbearable.