Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billström announced that donations will be held for earthquake victims in Türkiye and Syria before the Foreign Relations Council meeting in Brussels, Belgium. The EU Commission will hold a donors conference in Brussels on 16th of March to collect aid for earthquake victims.

“Our aim is to raise additional support for the people of Türkiye and Syria and try to do as much as possible to alleviate the terrible consequences of this earthquake. We expect a high level of turnout of people for this conference, and we also expect to be able to raise more money to do as much as we can for the people of these countries,” Billström added, stating that Sweden will try its best as well.