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LONDON — Britain has decided to resume aid to the Sunni revolt in Syria.

Officials said the government of Prime Minister David Cameron was planning to deliver non-lethal assistance to Western-aligned rebels in Syria.

The officials said the aid to the Free Syrian Army would consist of communications, vehicles, generators and medical supplies.

Sunni rebels have dismissed Western non-lethal aid and demanded heavy weapons, particularly surface-to-air missiles.

“I am now lifting the hold on those plans to deliver equipment to the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army in Syria,” British Foreign Secretary William Hague said.

In a notice to parliament on May 1, Hague said the aid would amount to 1 million pounds, or $1.7 million. The assistance was suspended in December 2013 after the FSA-dominated Supreme Military Council was virtually expelled from northern Syria by Al Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and Levant.

Officials said ISIL and its rival Nusra Front for the Defense of the Levant seized FSA warehouses that included equipment from Britain and the United States. They said NATO members searched for alternative supply routes in cooperation with Turkey, which hosts SMC.

“Both the UK government and the Supreme Military Council are confident
that the equipment can be delivered safely,” Hague said.

In August 2013, Britain
supplied to FSA masks and other equipment to stop a chemical weapons attack
by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Officials said the next
shipment would consist of satellite and cellular telephones, fuel, vehicles
and rations.

“This resumption of delivery clearly demonstrates our continued and
longstanding support for the National Coalition and the Supreme Military
Council of the Free Syrian Army, who represent the majority of Syrians who
support a political settlement and a democratic, pluralist future for their
country.”

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