But 30 years later, the Atlantis' dark, mirrored exterior and relatively squat height look dated, particularly compared to neighbouring buildings – newer, sleek white towers with gleaming, pale-tinted glass and balconies.
Beyani's report is the most explicit criticism of neighbouring countries to date from a UN official.
To date inside Syria and in neighbouring countries hosting Syrian refugees, UNICEF has provided around 10 million people with access to safe water, more than 2.4 million children with vaccinations against measles and 268,000 with access to education, among other responses.
One group of travel permits for caravans can be dated to the early 7th century, and it appears that other texts date from the same or from neighbouring centuries.
Refugee campaigners have repeatedly warned that countries neighbouring Syria have imposed illegal border restrictions, but to date the UN has been reluctant to publicly criticise those countries as they are already shouldering the brunt of the refugee problem.
It undoubtedly came at a late stage compared to other affected countries from the Caucasus to South Korea, not to mention neighbouring China where the onset of gender imbalances dates back to the early 1980s.
The donation is in addition to the ongoing support from the European Commission to help UNICEF's education programmes for Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries, which amounts to more than €500 million to date.
To date, it is estimated that more than 500,000 people have fled Libya to neighbouring countries.
To date, over 600,000 people have fled the violence and insecurity in Syria for neighbouring Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.
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