Tuesday, May 28, 2013

EU countries free to ship arms to Syria

EU flagEU countries are free to ship arms to Syria from 1 June onward in an ugly compromise after 14 hours of talks in Brussels.

The deal is to see all other sanctions - including visa bans, asset freezes and a prohibition on buying oil from regime-linked firms - extended for one year.

It comes with a political declaration that nobody will deliver weapons "at this stage."

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