Syria Demands Compensation for Damage Caused by U.S. Sanctions

Date: 14 April 2021 - 21:11

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DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – The Syrian Foreign Ministry has demanded compensation from the United States for the damage caused by the U.S. actions in Syria, according to the state news agency SANA.
The ministry demanded compensation for the "heavy damage and heavy losses inflicted by the U.S. aggression and occupation against the Syrian people.”
It further said that Syria holds the U.S. administration responsible for "its criminal policies against the Syrian people.”
The ministry described the U.S. practices in Syria as "a behavior outside international law that deserves condemnation and accountability by the international community.”
"Developments and facts have unquestionably proven the involvement of the U.S. and its proxies across the region and worldwide in an unprecedented terrorist war against the Syrian Arab Republic,” Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said in a statement on Tuesday.
The statement described the ongoing terrorist and economic campaigns against Syria as destructive projects that aim to consolidate the U.S. military occupation of the region and secure the Zionist regime’s dominance on its natural resources.
"The former U.S. administration [of President Donald Trump] did not stop at signing a proclamation that recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War. That administration and its successor [led by President Joe Biden] employed a new policy though. Washington is now directly intervening in northeastern Syria through support for separatist militants, and its military forces are both shelling civilian infrastructure and looting crude oil as well as wheat crops in the area,” the ministry said.
The statement also condemned American troops over moving across the Iraqi-Syrian border on a daily basis.
The troops’ repeated smuggling of Syrian oil and grain represents a gross violation of Syria’s sovereignty and that of neighboring Iraq, and is in breach of UN Security Council resolutions which all urge respect for Syria’s sovereignty and its territorial integrity, the foreign ministry added.
Moreover, there have been several reports showing Washington’s direct or indirect support through its regional allies for the terrorist group over the past years.