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#EU 🇪🇺 amends restrictive measures imposed on #Syria 🇸🇾 to facilitate delivery of humanitarian aid sana.sy/en/?p=301729

The Council of the #EU issued a resolution amending one of the restrictive measures imposed on #Syria for six months under the pretext of facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid due to the aggravation of the crisis in Syria after the earthquake hit the country.

According to EU amendment, humanitarian NGO no longer need to obtain prior permission from the competent authorities in EU Member States to carry out transfers or provide goods & services intended for humanitarian purposes to the individuals & entities included in the list.

Over many years,Western coercive measures caused suffering to the Syrians in all aspects of life as this suffering had has exacerbated after the earthquake, which claimed the lives of hundreds of victims & injured others,in addition to causing great damage to homes/infrastructure

For years experts at the #UN 🇺🇳 have been sounding the alarm-bells about the humanitarian repercussions of the West’s sanctions, just after the imposition of the US “Caesar Act” sanctions against #Syria.
Only now #EU 🇪🇺 lifted the sanctions for 6 months

https://twitter.com/EUinSyria/status/1629032152267456515?t=1t3YjBam3QuKpGivyWo-ow&s=19

🗣️📢 World leaders, citizens of the world, when the #US 🇺🇸 or the
#EU🇪🇺 starts with the slogan “Human Rights” always remember what they did to #Syria 🇸🇾
🗣️📢 It took social pressure for them to lift the criminal sanctions, for a period of 6 months.

https://twitter.com/EUinSyria/status/1629032152267456515?t=-ONiHSg4wZqiKTS5XG6MHA&s=19

#EU follows in #Washington’s footsteps temporarily easing sanctions on #Syria

#Western states have been forced to ease unilateral sanctions on #Syria after facing widespread criticism for blocking humanitarian aid deliveries
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Three months before the 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit, the #UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights, Elena Dohan, called on the #US & other western countries to immediately lift sanctions against #Syria,
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highlighting the dire impact these measures have had on the humanitarian situation of the war-torn nation.

“I was shocked to witness the massive and widespread impact of the unilateral coercive measures imposed on Syria,”
-Dohan said on 10 November-
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Dohan adding that sanctions exacerbate the “economic and financial isolation of a country whose people are struggling to rebuild a dignified life after a decade of war.”
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“90 percent of the Syrian population currently lives below the poverty line, with limited access to food, water, electricity, shelter, cooking fuel, heating, transportation, and health care,” Dohan added.
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Last year, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned that over 12 million Syrians suffered from food shortages.
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