“Urgent assistance that came from friendly and fraternal states provided strong support to national efforts to mitigate the consequences of the earthquake and rescue the victims,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge said earlier that the powerful earthquakes that hit central Turkey and northwestern Syria in early February were "the worst natural disaster in the European Region in a century."
UN Secretary General António Guterres called for almost $400 million in humanitarian aid to Syria after the earthquake.