A top U.N. official who recently visited a Syrian refugee camp returned "deeply disturbed and shaken" by what he saw: displaced Palestinians in desperate need of aid. U.N. officials estimate that at least 140,000 Palestinian refugees were forced to flee their homes in Yarmouk after the Syrian conflict began in March 2011. Refugees are experiencing "acute and widespread deprivation, including severe malnutrition," said Filippo Grandi, commissioner-general for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency.
"I am deeply disturbed and shaken by what I observed today."
— Filippo Grandi, a U.N.comissioner
Syria has agreed to a new timetable to remove its chemical weapons by late April after failing to meet a deadline to ship out the arsenal earlier this month. Diplomats said the latest timetable would see Syria committing to transporting most of the remaining chemicals to its Mediterranean port of Latakia by April 13, from where they would be shipped out for destruction.
"This is something on which the Russians are continuing to keep up the pressure on the regime. This process is going forward, it hasn't been completely derailed."
— anonymous senior U.S. official
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