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| EU targets Assad couple's high-end lifestyle |
| 2012-04-24 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... turned its sights on the Assad couple's high-end lifestyle Monday, banning the export of luxury goods as part of new sanctions to punish the regime's relentless violence. In a 14th round of EU sanctions against Syria in a year, foreign ministers from the 27-nation bloc banned shipments of luxury items to Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... and further restricted the sale of goods used to repress dissidents. "The EU will continue its policy of imposing additional measures targeting the regime ... as long as repression continues," ministers said in a statement. Russia, which has agreed to the presence of UN truce monitors, at the weekend condemned the idea of new EU sanctions. But European ministers and diplomats said the new restrictive measures were a direct response to continuing violence in Syria, despite the presence of UN truce observers in the country. "It is very important for us to keep up that pressure, step up that pressure," said British Foreign Secretary William Hague. "They are not in full compliance of the ceasefire requirements of the (Kofi) Annan plan." |
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