They weigh to Syria Since the seventies, and this Monday, the European Union (EU) will take the first step to lift the Western sanctions against the Arab country, released from the presidency and presence of Bashar Al Asad last December. In a lightning offensive and by surprise, Syrian rebelsled by the old subsidiary of Al Qaeda In the Arab country, Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (hts)ended the brutal regime of more than 50 years of the ASAD, characterized by the persecution, killing and repression of the civilian population, both before the armed conflict and during the war.
These are the keys to Western sanctions against Syria.
The first Western sanctions against Syria come from an anterior world, which no longer exists. In 1979a few years after coup d’etat which led to Hafez Al Asad “Bashar’s father,” to power in Damascus, USA He imposed his first battery of sanctions against Syria, and forbade his allies to trade and deal with Syrian companies. The reason was political: the Syria of the Asad had allied with the Moscow Soviet, and the world, at that time, was a world of blocks and marked walls.
The vast majority of international sanctions against the Syrian of the Asad, however, would arrive much later, from 2011: Before the beginning of the Civil War in the Arab country and the killings and repression of the Damascus regime, which used, on several occasions and for different years, chemical weapons against its civilian population.
These sanctions, above all, were aimed entrepreneurs and billionaires related to the Syrian government. Syria, during the war and the cause of the sanctions, was completely separated from the world economyand the large exporting and importing companies – participants in the corrupt narcosystem of the Asad – saw how their international trade was prohibited, which became only illegal and of smuggling.
This has caused the shopping basket in the Arab country, during these years of war, has been much more expensive than in neighboring countries, much richer than Syria. In Aleppofor example, a last model of iPhone It is worth three times more than the price of the same product in Space.
After 13 years of civil war, Syria is impoverished and almost completely destroyed. The new Syrian interim government led by HTS, in fact, has several times accepted that the Syrian State is bankruptand that this cannot change unless international sanctions, applied against ASAD, are not raised.
“We have inherited all the sanctions against Asad. In the past, these sanctions were imposed to help Syria people. But now they are against them. Syria has now entered a New eraand our administration only seeks to create a peaceful, safe and stable nation. Syria is no longer a threat to any country in the world, ”requested Syrian Foreign Minister, Asaad’s belly al Shaabaniin the, in Swiss.
The new Syrian authorities hope that, thus, the foreign investment Towards the Arab country, something indispensable to start with the tasks of reconstruction of whole neighborhoods and cities.
“On Monday the lifting and suspension of certain sanctions that previously applied against the Transportation and Finance sectors Syrians, keys in the stabilization of Syria, ”he said Monday, since BrusselsFrench Foreign Minister, Jean Noël Barrot before the EU Foreign Ministers Meeting that will decide on the matter.
The ball is not, alone, on the European roof: USAwhich eliminated last month the reward of ten million dollars for the head of the HTS leader, Ahmed Al Sharaaalso has several sanctions batteries against Damascus. The new US president, Donald Trumpit has not yet expressed itself in this future uprising.
Brussels, however, ensures that his decision to start eliminating his sanctions as of this Monday is not definitive, and that he can be reversible. “We will go step by stepand we are starting with the sanctions that are more important for the reconstruction of the country. Then we will see: if your advances go in good direction, then we will continue moving forward [en la retirada de más sanciones]”, Said Monday the high representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Vice President in the European Commission, Kaja Kallas.
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