New York (ST): China has demanded that the US immediately lift the unilateral coercive measures being imposed on Syria, calling at the same time to increase the humanitarian aid to Syria on the basis of respecting Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The Chinese News Agency quoted China’s permanent envoy to the UN Zhang Jun as saying that years of unilateral coercive sanctions caused many difficulties to the Syrian people and they must be lifted immediately, noting that these sanctions damage the Syrian economy, complicate the Syrian people’s living conditions and undermine Syria’s ability to respond to corona-virus pandemic properly.
Zhang added that if the US was interested in the humanitarian situation in Syria, it could do a lot of things instead of blaming others including lifting the sanctions and calling on Washington to stop politicizing the humanitarian question in Syria.
He called for the necessity of supporting the Syrian government by the international community to activate the economy.
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