Moscow considers abnormal with the existence of EU sanctions and the US against Syria. This was stated by Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after talks with the head of European diplomacy Federica Mogherini in Brussels, reports RIA Novosti
“We have discussed with our colleagues on this, I believe, an abnormal situation. Sanctions have largely prevented the production of necessities in the SAR, including the pharmaceutical industry, which was in Syria always very well developed, and now she’s cut those sanctions, the prohibitions that our Western colleagues have imposed,” said Lavrov.
In turn, Mogherini said that Sanctions policy of the European Union against Syria are directed against individuals, not the Syrian people.
In the sanctions list of the EU in relation to Syria, there are 240 individuals and legal entities. 67 the Restrictive measures include, in particular, an oil embargo, restrictions for certain investments, the freezing of assets of Syrian Central Bank within the EU, as well as restrictions on the supply of equipment and technologies that can be used for repression, surveillance and interception of Internet traffic and telephone conversations.
The civil war in Syria began in 2011. Participate in the confrontation between government forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, opposition forces Islamist groups and terrorists. Among the latter are prohibited on the territory of Russia the organization “Islamic state”.