{"id":46719,"date":"2025-04-24T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46719\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:37:08","slug":"uk-lifts-sanctions-on-syrias-defense-ministry-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46719\/","title":{"rendered":"UK lifts sanctions on Syria\u2019s defense ministry \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The measures will &#8220;support Syria&#8217;s economic recovery following the fall of Assad,&#8221; Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s official spokesperson said Thursday. The lifted sanctions, which come into force Friday, &#8220;aim to promote regional stability and encourage the return of Syrian refugees,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/23\/world\/middleeast\/syria-president-al-shara-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the New York Times<\/a> lifting sanctions would prevent another civil war and keep the government functioning. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny chaos in Syria will damage not just neighboring countries but the whole world,\u201d Al-Sharaa said.<\/p>\n<p>The British government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/uk-grants-37-fewer-work-visas-2024-official-data-shows-2025-02-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously unfroze sanctions<\/a> on Syria&#8217;s central bank and oil companies in March as it tries to build closer relations with Damascus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The measures will &#8220;support Syria&#8217;s economic recovery following the fall of Assad,&#8221; Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s official spokesperson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[331,25646,17777,748,1193,6725,2437,473,393,4884,2817,807,1144,2661,6658,2663,712,6647,6500,16,15,1764,771,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-46719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-banks","10":"tag-bashar-assad","11":"tag-bridges","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-british-politics","14":"tag-central-banks","15":"tag-companies","16":"tag-defense","17":"tag-england","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-intelligence","20":"tag-keir-starmer","21":"tag-northern-ireland","22":"tag-oil","23":"tag-refugees","24":"tag-sanctions","25":"tag-scotland","26":"tag-stability","27":"tag-syria","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-wales","31":"tag-war","32":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114393215367443798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}