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The UN envoy for Syria called for an early end to Western sanctions following the ouster of President Bashar Assad from power. He said that after the fall of President Bashar Assad, the country’s new leaders, regional and global powers have started charting the way forward.
damascus. The UN envoy for Syria called for an early end to Western sanctions following the ouster of President Bashar Assad from power. He said that after the fall of President Bashar Assad, the country’s new leaders, regional and global powers have started charting the way forward. Syria has faced tough sanctions from the US, EU and other countries for years as a result of Assad’s brutal crackdown on peaceful anti-government protests in 2011. These protests later turned into civil war.
Nearly half a million people were killed in the conflict and the country’s pre-war population declined to half its pre-war population of 23 million due to displacement. In the absence of a political solution, reconstruction was largely hampered by sanctions aimed at preventing the reconstruction of damaged infrastructure and property in government-held areas. “We hope there will be a quick end to the sanctions so we can really see a solidarity to rebuild Syria,” U.N. envoy Geir Pedersen told reporters during a visit to Damascus.
Pedersen traveled to Damascus to meet officials of the new interim government established by the former opposition forces that ousted Assad, led by the Islamic militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS. Officials in Washington have indicated that the Biden administration is considering removing the group’s ‘terrorist designation’. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday that officials were in direct contact with the group.
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