Compensating Aleppo Industrialists for Losses Caused by Terrorist Attacks Urged

ALEPPO- Members of Aleppo Chamber of Industry have called for compensating industrialists for the losses and damage inflicted on their properties because of the armed terrorist groups’ attacks against Sheikh Najjar Industrial City in Aleppo and against other industrial areas there.

During a meeting on Saturday, members of the Industry Chamber suggested spacing out payments of industrialists’ debts, facilitating the granting of clearances to industrialists in Sheikh Najjar industrial city and providing exemptions from fines and fees on rebuilding the destroyed industrial areas.  

Aleppo Governor Mohammad Wahid Akkad, who urged the industrialists to resume work in their factories and firms, promised to provide necessary support, particularly in the area of rehabilitating the infrastructure of the factories and meeting production requirements, mainly the fuel.

The governor stressed that the compensation requests of the terrorism-affected industrialist are under study, pointing out that the number of the industrial facilities which were exposed to destruction and looting reached 365.   

“The economic and industrial life will be back to Aleppo thanks to the victories achieved by the Syrian Arab Army on the armed terrorist groups,” the governor said, hailing the efforts being exerted to attain national reconciliation in Aleppo.

For his part, Fares al-Shehabi, Chairman of the Board of Aleppo Industry Chamber stressed that, being a terrorism-hit city, Aleppo needs a package of special laws and legislations providing for granting exemptions and advantages to facilitate the work of industrialists to rebuild the city.

He said that the case filed by the federations of industry, commerce and agriculture chambers as well as by trade unions against the countries which sponsored terrorism and facilitated the influx of terrorists to Syria continues as to pressure these countries to pay the compensations for the damage and losses inflicted on industrial facilities.

He pointed out that the losses of the industrial sector are estimated at $100 billion.

H. Mustafa