DAMASCUS, Feb 11 (NNN-SANA) – The U.S. latest move, to ease the sanctions imposed on Syria to support earthquake relief efforts is “misleading and aims to give a false humanitarian impression,” the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, yesterday.
On Thursday, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a so-called six-month sanctions exemption for Syria-bound humanitarian aid, saying, the U.S. sanctions in Syria “will not stand in the way” of live-saving efforts.
The Syrian ministry responded in the statement that, the U.S. decision “stipulates alleged exemptions for humanitarian purposes, and the facts on the ground proved its falsehood.”
The U.S. coercive measures and U.S. policies have deprived the Syrian people of their natural wealth, it added, urging the United States to end immediately, without hesitation, conditions or exceptions, the sanctions and to stop its cruel practices and violations of international law and the principles and purposes of the UN Charter.
The Syrian government has repeatedly said, the sanctions were unjust and targeted the livelihoods and the well-being of the Syrian people, particularly after the earthquake.
According to figures released by the Syrian Health Ministry yesterday, Syria’s death toll from Monday’s earthquakes rose to 1,387 and the injured to 2,326.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor, said that, the earthquake in Syrian government and rebel-held areas had killed 4,500 people.– NNN-SANA
