US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to end the US sanctions program on Syria, which ended the separation of the Middle Eastern country from the international financial system.
The ban program, which has been in force since 2004, implemented far -reaching sanctions on Syria, affecting most state institutions including the central bank.
“This is trying to promote and support the country’s path for stability and peace of the country,” the White House press secretary Karolin Lewit told reporters.
Restrictions against Assad are implemented
Lewit stated that the steps will be able to maintain the US for former Syrian President, Bashar Assad, and their colleagues as well as human rights misuse, drug smugglers, chemical weapons activities, Islamic State, ISIS affiliated and Iranian proxy involved in Iranian proxy.
Trump’s order is therefore instructing the US State Department to review the designation of the Islamic group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a foreign terrorist organization. The Syrian transitional government has emerged to a large extent from this group.
US State Secretary Marco Rubio has to review the designation of Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism, as well as a Syrian transitional President Ahmed Al-Shra as a terrorist.
Syria welcomes Trump’s move
According to a post by the minister on the social media platform X, Syrian Foreign Minister Asad al-Shabani stated that the US marked a “major turn point”.
He wrote on X, “With raising this major obstacle for economic reform, long -awaited doors are opening to rebuild and development”
Trump had already left Syria from most sanctions in May in response to an appeal to Saudi Arabia and Türkiye.
In December, Assad was excluded in a sharp aggressive led by the Islamist rebels under the command of Al-Shra. Since then, Syria has taken steps to rebuild its international relations.
Edited by: Alex Berry
