Catherine Ashton. (INTERMEDIATE/REUTERS/Thierry Roge)Brussels (Reuters)-Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) agreed to continue enforcing sanctions to Syria and add them into three more months and promising to continue giving humanitarian aid to war-torn countries.
"We agreed to extend the sanctions to Syria plus three months again. We change it so that Syria get pressure means for the purpose of protecting the civil population from the Government army attacks, "said EU Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton in her remarks while attending a news conference on Monday (local time) in a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union.
"We will continue our efforts in helping the innocent victims of conflict in Syria," said Ashton.
He explained that the EU provided aid worth of 600 million euros to the victims of the war.
Based on estimates of the last sacrifice according to the UN, at least 70,000 people were killed and 700 thousand others forced out of Syria since the fall of the people's action who want President Bashar Al Assad in March 2011.
The European Union is the largest trading partner of Syria. The EU imposed economic sanctions on the Government of Bashar by 2011.
The sanctions include a ban on exports of arms embargo, a freezing of assets and travel to more than 120 individuals and 40 companies.
The EU also prohibits Member States importing crude oil from Syria and also the blockade trade commodity nature such as gold, precious metals and gold belongs to a public body and the central bank of Syria.
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