EU begins easing Syria energy, transport and banking sanctions to help revive its economy

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EU Partially Lifts Sanctions on Syria’s Oil Industry, Some Banks

(Bloomberg) — The European Union has agreed to partially suspend several sanctions on Syria’s energy industry, including scrapping bans on importing crude from the country and on exporting technologies to the oil and gas industry.

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EU lifts sanctions on Syria but warns against 'backtracking'

Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat, said that the decision to lift sanctions is “immediate and open-ended” but warned that it “can be reversed if Syria's new rulers backtrack [on] their commitments”.

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The European Union is committed to ensuring that Syria's transitional government can stabilise the Arab country, and sanctions should now give way to this.

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EU suspends sanctions against Syria including those on energy, banking

EU suspends sanctions against Syria, including energy, banking, transport restrictions, following Assad's ousting by insurgent forces.

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The twenty-seven foreign ministers of the European Union are meeting in Brussels and on the menu of their day are the DRC and the Middle East. On Monday, 24 February, they already adopted a sixteenth package of sanctions against Russia; but they also decided to lift some of the sanctions that had struck Syria since the outbreak of the civil war.

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The Foreign Ministers have suspended sanctions in the energy, transport and banking sectors, which is a gesture towards the new leaders in Damascus.