{"id":40362,"date":"2025-01-08T17:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=40362"},"modified":"2025-01-08T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:34:34","slug":"french-foreign-minister-eu-sanctions-on-syria-could-be-lifted-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/french-foreign-minister-eu-sanctions-on-syria-could-be-lifted-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"French Foreign Minister: EU Sanctions on Syria Could Be Lifted Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-a:r791123472520401888\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot told &#8220;France Inter&#8221; radio on Wednesday that European Union sanctions on Syria, which are currently hindering the delivery of humanitarian aid and the country&#8217;s recovery, could be lifted quickly.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-a:r791123472520401888-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added that discussions are ongoing with EU partners regarding the potential lifting of additional sanctions if progress is made in areas such as women&#8217;s rights and achieving security in Syria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He continued, \u201cThere are sanctions imposed on Bashar al-Assad and the executioners of his regime. Naturally, these sanctions will not be lifted. However, there are other sanctions that currently hinder the delivery of humanitarian aid and prevent the country\u2019s recovery, and these may be lifted soon.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The United States has issued a six-month exemption from sanctions on transactions with certain government entities in Syria to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid, address energy shortages, and allow for personal remittances.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The EU, the US, the UK, and other governments imposed strict sanctions on Syria after Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011 turned into a civil war. Although the group &#8220;Hayat Tahrir al-Sham&#8221; announced severing its ties with al-Qaeda, both the UN and the US still classify it as a terrorist organization.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot told &#8220;France Inter&#8221; radio on Wednesday that European Union sanctions on Syria, which are currently hindering the delivery of humanitarian aid and the country&#8217;s recovery, could be lifted quickly. He added that discussions are ongoing with EU partners regarding the potential lifting of additional sanctions if progress is made in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40363,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40362\/revisions\/40363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}