...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
"In an unprecedented decision that contradicts international law and the U.N. Charter... the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
has decided to allow member states to import petrol... under the pretext of supporting the opposition," state news agency SANA reported, citing the letters.
"It is an illegal decision and an act of aggression."
Syrian rebels fighting President
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
's troops won a fresh boost Monday when the European Union eased its oil embargo to let them exploit the resources they control.
But the decision raised a furious response in Damascus
...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
The European Union will be trading "with the so-called opposition Coalition, which represents no one in Syria," the letters to U.N. Secretary General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
and the Security Council said.
The decision is an act of "complicity in the theft of resources that belong to the Syrian people, represented by the current, legitimate government," they added.
"The European Union is following its political and economic campaign that targets the national economy and the daily bread of Syrian citizens," the ministry added, referring to EU sanctions on the Assad regime.