After the relief of the US sanctions and the European Union, Syria looks at the future with hope
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propagandaOn Saturday, the Syrians celebrated the streets of the Trump administration’s decision Softening penalties It was imposed on this country destroyed by the war. Her celebration occurs after the official relaxation of the penalties By the European Union Earlier this week, the United States announced last week during the Middle East tour of US President Donald Trump.
“When I read the news that the sanctions (law) will really wake up, especially after the reports we hear in recent weeks, the fact is that I cried,” a resident, to the local media, told local media. “We are finally seen Real steps towards the country’s recoveryHe added.
Detaccesses occur yet Low lion system In December 2024, on Tuesday, the European Union said it adopted a gradual and vice versa to support the transfer of Syria and economic recovery, after the suspension of some economic sanctions in February. In the case of the United States, the sanctions of Congress, known as the Civil Protection Law in Syria (Syria Civil Civil Law), is intended isolation To the former Syrian rulers who expel from the global financial system for those who deal with them.
However, a scale of the Ministry of Treasury has now commented on the application of sanctions to anyone who deals with a series of people and Syrian entitiesIncluding the Central Bank of Syria. A six -month Ministry of Foreign Affairs scale resigned to a difficult set of sanctions imposed by Congress in 2019. This is precisely prevented Reconstruction after the environmentTherefore, although it can be canceled for 180 days in an executive order, it is likely that investors are not trusted in reconstruction projects when the penalties can be restored after six months.
Damascus “tends the hand”
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, gave widespread exemptions from sanctions in a first important step towards fulfilling his promise to lift half a century of sanctions on a broken country 14 years of civil war. The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday that the country “tends to hand” to anyone who wants to cooperate with Damascus, Provided that there is no intervention in internal affairs From the country.
On Friday, the Trump administration said the measures “only part of a wider effort from the United States government to eliminate all structure sanctions.” These sanctions were imposed on the Assad family to support them Iran -backed militiasChemical weapons program and abuse of civilians.
Nile Kada, a resident of Damascus, said that after the sanctions were reduced, the country You will bloom again. For Kaddah, Syrians can freely transfer money, unlike the past, when there have been many companies that monopolize business and have undertaken great commissions for transfers. “Now any citizen can get a transition from anywhere in the world,” he said.
The European Union and the United States confirms that eliminating sanctions aims to give the Syrian interim government more capabilities to survive, a major decision from the Damascus administration that welcomed her consent.
Additional sources • Offer: Lucía Blasco
