The EU now focused sanctions also on Syria’s leader
The EU Foreign Ministers decided on Monday to impose a travel ban on Syrian President al-Assad and his close circle and to freeze their funds within the EU. “Additional measures, too, are possible after this if the sanction imposed earlier and those decided today are not effective,” said Ambassador Store, Finland’s Permanent Representative to the EU. Foreign Minister Stubb was unable to attend the meeting owing to the intense Government formation talks in progress without a break.