Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch calls for lifting sanctions on Syria

Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch has called on the international community to lift the western sanctions and unilateral coercive measures being imposed on Syria.

 

Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II in a statement issued after concluding the meeting held on June 22-26  spoke about the painful suffering of the Syrian people from the sanctions, calling on the international community to lift them.

 

The statement also condemned the repeated cutting of drinking water supply to Hasakah residents by the Turkish regime.

 

It referred to the two Archbishops of Aleppo, the Greek Orthodox Boulos Yazigi and the Orthodox Syrian Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim, who disappeared on April 22, 2013.

 

The statement praised the success of the recent Syrian presidential elections in which president Bashar Al-Assad was reelected.

 

Basma Qaddour