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The EU aims to facilitate engagement with Syria, its people, and businesses, in key areas of energy and transport, as well as to facilitate financial and banking transactions associated with such sectors and those needed for humanitarian and reconstruction,
We will go forward with the suspension of sanctions against Syria,
the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said before a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels Rather than using broad sectoral sanctions as leverage for shifting political objectives, Western governments should recognize their direct harm to civilians and take meaningful steps to lift restrictions that impede access to basic rights,
said Hiba Zayadin, senior Syria researcher at HRW A piecemeal approach of temporary exemptions and limited waivers is not enough. Sanctions that harm civilians should immediately be lifted, not refined,
