Rabat – The countries of the European Union announced their decision on Monday to reduce the sanctions that Syria were imposed with immediate effect.
This step comes to ease Restrictions in several sectors, including energy, banking, transport and reconstruction.
The EU measures also included freezing for assets for five banks, the restriction of the Syrian central bank and the expansion of exemption to facilitate humanitarian aid indefinitely.
The European Block said that this relief should “facilitate the commitment with Syria, its people and companies in important areas of energy and transportation”, and added that it was also “financial and bank transactions related to such sectors should be relieved ”and those needed for humanitarian and reconstructive purposes. “
Syria welcomed the move to express Enthusiasm that it will help the country to keep its way to revive vital sectors and to relieve the burden of the Syrian people.
The country’s Foreign Minister, Asaad al-Chibani, wrote about X: “We welcome the EU’s decision to expose selected sanctions in certain sectors, and see this as a step towards relieving the suffering of our people.”
The decision of the EU countries is made after two months of political discussions in which the officials of the Syria interim government pleaded the sanction elevator to facilitate the transition process in the country destroyed by the war.
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“We have spent the past two months involved in discussing discussions and diplomatic efforts to relieve the unjust sanctions that have burdened our people,” added Shibani.
The EU country on January 27th agreed On a roadmap to facilitate sanctions after mediation from Saudi Arabia in order to help Syria in his revival journalistically.
The move comes two months after the new Syrian interim government had asked to relieve sanctions against the country destroyed by the war to reconstruct it.
Many western countries initially imposed sanctions against Syria during the now covered Assad Protest in 2011. The protests later transformed into a civil war in which over 2 million people, millions of others, and a large part of the country destroyed.
