Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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Mr. Al Habib was talking about the regime controlling 14% of the territory and receiving most of the UN aid. How much UN aid is being given to the regime and how is the UN doing this? That is one of the key elements. I was talking to Robert Fisk, who would probably be the pre-eminent authority in media circles on the situation in Syria and the Middle East. He has been an observer there for more than four decades. When I asked him what the solution was, he said he did not know. I asked him what would happen next and he said he did not know because the situation is the worst he had ever seen. It is now more unstable than it has been at any time over the past 50 years. There are too many actors and too many foreign interests with competing outcomes they wish to see. There is nobody with any moral authority left because those who should have acted earlier have not done so and they continue to fail to act. Could Mr. Al Habib clarify how UN aid is being given to the regime?