U.S. imposes fresh sanctions on Syria in push for Assad to end war
12/22/2020 | 12:27pm EDT
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Tuesday slapped fresh sanctions on Syria, targeting its central bank and blacklisting several people and entities in a continued effort to cut off funds for President Bashar al-Assad s government.
The latest action, building on sanctions imposed on Syria earlier this year, marked another round in a U.S. campaign to push Assad s government back into U.N.-led negotiations to end the country s nearly decade-long war. The United States will continue to seek accountability for those prolonging this conflict, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.
US State Department Sanctions Wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad The Media Line Staff 12/22/2020
The US State Department announced new sanctions on Asma Assad, the wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad, for preventing efforts to resolve the long-running Syrian civil war. Asama Assad “has spearheaded efforts on behalf of the regime to consolidate economic and political power, including by using her so-called charities and civil society organizations,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Tuesday.
Sanctions also will be levied against several members of Asma Assad’s immediate family, according to the statement, which named Fawaz Akhras, Sahar Otri Akhras, Firas al Akhras and Eyad Akhras. “The Assad and Akhras families have accumulated their ill-gotten riches at the expense of the Syrian people through their control over an extensive, illicit network with links in Europe, the Gulf, and elsewhere. Meanwhile, th
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The US slapped new sanctions on Syria’s First Lady, Asma Al Assad, her UK-based parents and others on Tuesday, saying she used her charities to consolidate power and block efforts to end her country’s brutal civil war.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said asset freezes and travel bans on the British-born wife of President Bashar Al Assad and 17 other people and entities would intensify pressure on the embattled regime and its foreign backers.
The sanctions, under the so-called Caesar Act, cover Ms Al Assad, her relatives, the commander of Syria’s Military Intelligence General Kifah Moulhem, and the country’s central bank, as well as Syrian shipping, construction, plastic and freight companies.
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE
Five years ago last Friday, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2254, firmly laying out the only path for an enduring resolution to the Syrian conflict. The United States and the vast majority of the international community remain committed to this dignified plan for ending the suffering of the Syrian people.
The Assad regime, supported by its enablers and allies, however, refuses to end its needless, brutal war against the Syrian people, stalling efforts to reach a political resolution. The Department of State today is imposing sanctions on Asma al-Assad, the wife of Bashar al-Assad, for impeding efforts to promote a political resolution of the Syrian conflict pursuant to Section 2(a)(i)(D) of Executive Order 13894. Asma al-Assad has spearheaded efforts on behalf of the regime to consolidate economic and political power, including by using
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Syria s Central Bank, high-ranking figures and economic entities supportive of Damascus were targeted in the fresh US Treasury s sanctions. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a high-ranking official in the Syrian government; her husband, a member of the Syrian People’s Assembly; and their business entities, read a statement released on Tuesday by the US Treasury Department.