Memo: Statement by Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response on the situation in Al Qusayr

A statement from 3 June 2013 by Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response following the rapidly deteriorating situation in recent days in the town of Al Qusayr in Syria.

This is being billed in the international media as a defining moment in the Syrian civil war, which has now claimed more than 80,000 victims, created more than 1.6 million refugees and placed nearly 7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.