Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) spokesman Hicham Hassan said a joint ICRC and Syrian Red Crescent team brought emergency food and other goods to 12.000 people from Hama.
Hama is under heavy fire from government forces, and the surrounding villages and towns are often the scene of anti-government protests and clashes between the army and army deserters.
According to Syrian pro-democracy activist groups, more than 11 people have died in Syria in the 8.000 months that the rebellion against the Assad regime has lasted.
On the other hand, in Moscow, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned against military intervention in Syria or an attack on its ally Iran.
He added that the West supported the "Arab Spring" for the sake of its own interests in that region, and that instead of the protests encouraging the development of democracy, they only led to religious extremism.
Russia strongly supports official Damascus, and, along with China, vetoed two UN Security Council resolutions on Syria.
Arab League envoy Kofi Annan at the first talks on Syria
Former UN Secretary General and Arab League envoy for Syria Kofi Annan spoke today in Geneva with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, the UN reported today.
"He is in a meeting with Salehi, and later he will meet with Zipe," said the UN official, relaying the words of Annan's associates in Geneva, where the two ministers are at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Arab League chief Nabil Elarabi on Thursday appointed Annan as their joint special envoy for the crisis in Syria.
In his first public statement on Friday, Annan called on all parties to cooperate and the international community to help end violence and human rights violations in Syria.
Iraq does not support the Syrian government "at all costs"
Iraqi National Security Adviser Faleh al-Fayad said on Monday that his country does not support "at any cost" the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, AFP reports citing the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh.
"We do not support the Syrian regime at any cost. We support reforms and the free choice of the people to decide who will lead them," said Fayad, whose country has so far been quite restrained towards the crisis in Syria.
"We support the aspirations of the Syrian people. We cannot want freedom and democracy for ourselves, and then deny it to the Syrians," added an Iraqi official who is visiting Saudi Arabia.
Iraq, which shares a 600-kilometer border with Syria, recently announced that neither the Syrian government nor the opposition would be invited to the Arab summit in March in Baghdad.
Fayad reminded that Baghdad fully supported the Arab League's plan for Syria. According to estimates by humanitarian agencies, more than 2011 people have died in the conflicts in Syria since March 8.000.
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