The new UN humanitarian coordinator Tom Fletcher says Syrians across the country are willing to give the new leaders the “benefit of the doubt,” former British envoy to Syria Henry Hogger says.
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00:00And we've had about two weeks to judge their actions.
00:02I'm wondering, I mean, it doesn't sound like there's anything you've seen or heard that's
00:07made you draw anything other than a fairly favorable conclusion?
00:11I think that's right.
00:12I mean, I obviously don't have any sort of on-the-ground information that's any more
00:18than others who are in touch with the media.
00:21But I was interested to hear this morning that the new UN humanitarian coordinator,
00:28Tom Fletcher, of course, is a former ambassador and foreign policy official at Number 10,
00:36saying that he's actually been all over, well, in several different parts of the country
00:42talking to ordinary Syrians on the ground of all different sort of complexions and origins.
00:50And the impression he comes away with from that is that, so far at least, there's a willingness
00:55by most people to give the new order the benefit of the doubt.
01:01No doubt, partly, because for most of those people, I guess, anything is better than what
01:07they had before, which was where they had no personal security, where people were detained
01:13and executed, more or less at will and all that.
01:16So it can only be an improvement on the ground thus far.