YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 18, ARMENPRESS. Armenia has delivered another batch of humanitarian aid to Syria. The aircraft loaded with clothing, food, medical items and sleeping bags landed in Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia.

Davit Tonoyan, minister of Armenia’s emergency situations ministry, said over 20 tons of cargo has been delivered to Syria.

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“The cargo will be transported to the Russian Air Base in Latakia, and then it will be transported by vehicles to Aleppo, escorted by a Russian military convoy.

With the assistance of the Armenian community, the humanitarian aid will be distributes to Syrians as well. “In this batch of the humanitarian aid, clothing and sleeping bags are the main items”, Tonoyan said.

Hranush Hakobyan, minister of Armenia’s ministry of Diaspora, said 4 humanitarian aid aircrafts have been sent to Syria in the past 4 months as result of cooperation between Armenia and Russia, and under the auspices of President Sargsyan.

“The importance of this is not as much material as it is moral. Our compatriots are more confident and happy there when they feel their Fatherland is by their side. During these years, the ambulance service is operating there headed by our spiritual dioceses, which not only receives and distributes the cargo to Syrian-Armenians and Syrians, but also finds solutions in an organized way for issues in different locations of Syria”, Hakobyan said.

The minister added the Armenian community of Krasnodar has sent flour to Aleppo, where Armenians baked bread in bakeries and distributed the Armenian bread to Syrians.

“We have also conveyed our warmth and support to the brotherly people of Syria by this way also. I wish them patience and peace”, Hakobyan said.

Earlier on February 14, Armenia delivered another batch of humanitarian aid to Syria. The cargo included food and different first-necessity items.