<p>The UK is calling on the international community to commit more funding urgently to reduce the shortfall in the UN humanitarian appeals for Syria and its neighbours in order to share the burden. Following successful UK lobbying at the G20 and the UN General Assembly, $1 billion in new funding has been pledged by the international community.</p><p>We regularly use our many diplomatic engagements to call on other nations, and international institutions, to give more to alleviate the awful suffering in Syria.</p>