Germany will give Syria €4 million (US$5.4 million) to help it cope with an increasing number of Iraqi refugees, Germany's development minister said Tuesday.
Those'd be the refugees caused by Syria's complicity in the insurgency, right? I think I'll go out and break somebody's windows so somebody else will give me some money. | Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul made the announcement after holding talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad at the start of a three-day visit to Syria. Speaking at a joint press conference with Abdullah Dardari, the Syrian deputy premier for economic affairs, she said that Germany feels the burden Syria is shouldering in hosting more than 1.5 million Iraqis.
Maybe they should just provide bus tickets to Darmstadt or Bremerhaven. | The German minister said that her visit - the first to Syria - adhered to the principle of "cooperation, not confrontation" as the best way for relations between states. She noted that Berlin supported Syria's bid to sign a partnership agreement with the European Union. |