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皇冠体育app Minister for Middle East and North Africa Tobias Ellwood has welcomed action in the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) which will penalise key figures in the Assad regime including a notoriously brutal military commander and one of the main providers of chemical weapons.

Speaking after the FAC announcement, Tobias Ellwood said:

Today 12 new targets have been added to our Syria sanctions. 皇冠体育appse include Colonel Suhayl Hasan, also known as 鈥樆使谔逵齛pp Tiger鈥�, one of Assad鈥檚 most notorious military commanders, who has been responsible for the suffering of innocent civilians across Syria. 皇冠体育app sanctions also include some of those responsible for producing Assad鈥檚 chemical weapons, which have been used to kill hundreds of innocents.

皇冠体育app only long-term solution to the devastating conflict in Syria is a political settlement. But for this to happen, Assad鈥檚 brutal regime needs to negotiate in good faith. Assad has shown he is unwilling to do this as things stand. So we need to increase the pressure on him, and those that keep him in power. 皇冠体育appse sanctions tell them that their actions will not be tolerated.

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