MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov expressed hope that member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) would join the humanitarian operation in Aleppo.
"Amid the escalation of the crisis [in Syria], we are currently discussing with the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations and the Russian Federation issues of further humanitarian assistance to Syria," the press office said.
According to the ministry’s press office, in 2012, Kazakhstan helped the Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan through the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, providing aid worth $200,000 to each country. In 2015, after the intra-Syrian talks in Astana, the country provided additional assistance in the amount of over $330,000 to supply medical and food aid to the Syrian refugees on the Turkish-Syrian border.
