For weeks, Syria's new authorities have been lobbying Western powers to scrap restrictions.
DAVOS – Syria's top diplomat said Wednesday that lifting economic sanctions imposed during the rule of ousted president Bashar al-Assad was "key" to restoring stability in the war-torn country.
"Removing economic sanctions is the key for the stability of Syria," Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said in a conversation with former British prime minister Tony Blair at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Nearly 14 years of conflict have killed more than half a million Syrians, destroyed the country's infrastructure and impoverished its people, forcing millions to flee their homes.
"We inherited a collapsed state from the Assad regime, there is no economic system," Shaibani said, adding that "the economy in the future will be open". Earlier Wednesday, Shaibani told the Financial Times that a committee had been created to study "Syria's economic condition and infrastructure and would focus on privatisation efforts, including of oils, cotton and furniture factories".
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