Washington-SANA
A group of human rights defenders and journalists working on human rights issues in the United States called on US President Joe Biden to lift the unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people.
The signatories of a letter addressed to Biden on the occasion of his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States indicated the need to lift all forms of sanctions imposed on imports and the transport of goods, especially those related to food, food, agriculture, oil derivatives, fertilizers, equipment, spare parts and medicines in all their human and veterinary forms, and to allow financial transfers.
In their letter, the jurists and journalists explained that most of the Syrian infrastructure, such as hospitals, health centers, power stations, and schools, which were either completely destroyed by terrorism or destroyed their components, is impossible to repair as a result of these American sanctions, which also caused a great shortage of food, destroyed the economy of Syrian families, and a decline in agricultural products. These sanctions are fuel, fertilizers, veterinary and agricultural medicines and seeds, in addition to human medicinal medicines, which made it difficult to confront the Corona pandemic in the country.
The signatories pointed out that the US army’s occupation of most of the Syrian oil fields and preventing oil derivatives from reaching the Syrian people, its legitimate owner, led to an acute shortage of oil derivatives and a shortage of electric power, which led to the closure of many small projects in which entire families lived.