EU suspends selected Syrian sanctions to encourage democratic development | Syrian war news
Restrictions dealing with energy, traffic and banking have been abolished because Brussels seeks to encourage democracy.
The European Union has abolished selected sanctions on Syria as part of the effort to support democratic development during the political transition of the country.
The block announced on Monday that it suspended the restrictions on oil, gas and electricity, together with sanctions on the transport sector, including the Air Force, with the current effect.
However, he warned that the decision could be canceled if the Syrian de facto leadership did not implement the expected reforms.
The EU has also returned the possibility of financing and providing certain economic resources of five banks. The limits of exports of luxury goods to Syria for personal use will also be alleviated.
The EU holds a wide range of sanctions throughout the economic sectors and individuals in Syria, charged during the reign of the overthrown President Bashar Al-Assad. The new leadership of the country has invited the West to facilitate restrictions to help Syria recover from the years of despot rule and the Civil War.
In a statement, the EU said its foreign ministers have made the decision to suspend selected sanctions as part of the effort to “support Including political transition in Syriaand his fast economic recovery, renewal and stabilization. “
The block added that Syrian temporary rulers would move in the wrong direction, sanctions could be redeemed quickly.
Ahmad al-Sharaa, leader of the armed group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), was Appointed a temporary president last month After the meeting of most of the former rebel fractions in the country that overthrew Al-Assad and five decades of his family’s reign.
Al-Sharaa was Meeting with regional and international leaders In an effort to establish a relationship and run a campaign for renovation after more than a decade of the war, it devastated the country and left parts of Syria that occupied foreign power.
The new authorities in Syria are expected to hold a national conference on a dialogue that starts on Tuesday to talk about a new way to the nation.
The conference was a key pledge for the new government to form a constitutional framework, an economic plan of the road and a plan for institutional reform, as it also seeks to abolish sanctions imposed by the United States.
It is expected that the new government that the authorities promised would be formed by next month to consider ideas and proposals that will be exhibited at a conference.
Geir Pedersen, a special envoy of the United Nations for Syria, said that the formation of a “new inclusive government” by March 1 could help determine whether multiple Western sanctions were abolished.
