CARACAS Women's Nike Air Vapormax Plus Black UK , Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Member nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) sent humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon Wednesday with a plane loaded with seven tons of food, medicine, clothes, blankets and bottled water.
"It is a gesture of peace and solidarity from the peoples and governments of the Bolivarian Alliance, comprising eight Latin American and Caribbean countries," Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, 21 km from Caracas Nike Air VaporMax Plus Men's Army Green UK , where the plane departed.
The humanitarian aid seeks to promote reflection among those with the power to prevent war, Jaua said, alluding to U.S. officials, including President Barack Obama, who favors a military strike to punish the Syrian government.
"We have to give peace a chance. We, in Venezuela, support taking the road to avoid fighting against the Syrian people," Jaua said.
The plane took off Wednesday, a day after Obama asked U.S. Congress to postpone a vote on a punitive military strike in a bid to give Russia a chance to pursue a diplomatic solution.
Obama claims the United States has evidence the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used sarin gas to attack opposition rebels outside the capital of Damascus on Aug. 21.
UNITED NATIONS, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday reported that some 16,000 Nigerian refugees have fled to the Far North region of neighboring Cameroon over the weekend to escape clashes in northeast Nigeria between regional military forces and insurgents.
"Starting tomorrow Men's Nike Air VaporMax Plus Triple Black UK , the Agency will work with Cameroon to relocate refugees to a transit site at Kousseri, 90 km from the border," Vannina Maestracci, the associate UN spokesperson, said at a daily news briefing here, adding "These refugees will then be transferred to a camp in Minawao."
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The Cameroonian authorities have observed a steady flow of refugees streaming in through the "extremely volatile" border regions of Makaria, Logone Birni and Fotokol, just south of Lake Chad, rendering them vulnerable to attacks from the Nigerian insurgent group, Boko Haram, the UN reported.
Clashes between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government forces have intensified