GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O'Brien will travel to Syria on Saturday to discuss with senior government officials how to boost aid to 13.5 million people left in need of help by the civil war.
O'Brien will visit Damascus and may also make field visits, depending on the security situation, before leaving on Monday, his spokesman Jens Laerke said on Friday. He last went to Syria in August, shortly after taking up his post.
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