74131652 United States expanded sanctions against Syria
U.S. authorities have expanded the list of Syrian officials who are subject to U.S. economic sanctions. On Tuesday, August 30, reported Agence France-Presse. The new sanctions have touched the head of the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, Adviser to the President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian Butayny Shaaban ambassador to Lebanon, Ali Abdul Karim Ali. Their assets in American banks should be frozen. In addition, U.S. citizens allowed to maintain those persons working relationship. The Ministry of Finance of the United States believes that these measures will help increase pressure on the regime of Bashar Assad, in which Western countries are blamed for the violence against peaceful demonstrators in Syria. In May, Washington imposed sanctions on President Assad himself and some high-ranking Syrian officials. August 10 under the U.S. sanctions were the largest bank in Syria Commercial Bank of Syria and the telecommunications company Syriatel. According to the U.S. Treasury, these companies' support the regime of Bashar Assad in his wrongdoing. " Anti-government uprising in Syria began in March 2011. Since then, according to some sources, the clashes between demonstrators and security forces loyal to Assad killed over two thousand people. Punitive measures against the Syrian authorities also operate from the European Union. They include freezing of accounts and a ban on entry to the European unit in respect of a number of Syrian chinovnikov.24 August expanded EU "black list" of persons involved in repression in Syria. August 23 Great Britain, France, Germany and Portugal proposed to the UN Security Council to approve a resolution which inter alia called for an embargo on the supply of weapons to Syria. Russia and China, however, blocked the adoption of this document. Earlier Security Council condemned the violence in the Arab country, but blamed the bloodshed on both sides.
