Eight Egyptian parties call for the immediate lifting of the coercive Western economic measures imposed on Syria

Cairo, (ST) – Eight Egyptian parties called for the immediate lifting of the unilateral coercive Western economic measures imposed on Syria, stressing that these measures are a flagrant violation of international law and threaten international peace and security and put the lives of Syrians at an increased risk.

The parties said in a letter they addressed to the President of the European Parliament and the European Union institutions and delivered to the European Union’s representation in Cairo, that, “the global war against the Syrian state has gone beyond ten years, and it is a war that targeted its capabilities, wealth, infrastructure and national institutions. It is also well known to everyone that, this war against Syria did not take into consideration the exceptional circumstance that the whole world is going through like the spread of the new Corona epidemic, which posed a threat to many societies and required international cooperation to confront it.”  They also said that this war, which was conducted by international and regional powers, targeted the unity of Syria.

The parties clarified that in light of this war and the deadly epidemic, the unilateral coercive measures imposed by the European Union and the United States on Syria have exacerbated the humanitarian situation and increased the suffering of the Syrian people and deprived them of their basic rights and daily needs, which are a flagrant violation of international law and threaten international peace and security. And the human life of the Syrian people is placed at increased risk.

The letter was signed by the Arab Nasserite Democratic Party, the Progressive Unionist Rally, National Accord, the Democratic Generation, Human Rights and Citizenship, National Egypt, Future Egypt and the Revolutionary Guards

Raghda Sawas