Damascus: We thwart US plot to plunder Syria’s wealth.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry stressed that the US sanctions waiver for investment in areas occupied by terrorist groups in Syria with the aim of looting its wealth will be thwarted by Damascus.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday that US assistance to terrorist groups in northeastern and northwestern Syria and Western tools is what is destroying Syria’s economic potential and plundering its wealth from cotton, oil and wheat. And antiquities.
According to the official Syrian News Agency (SANA), the Syrian Foreign Ministry blamed unilateral coercive measures for the destruction of infrastructure in Syria and stressed: The US Treasury in this regard is nothing more than a continuation of this destructive approach, which contradicts the international commitments of the United States in the fight against terrorism and the commitment to the unity of the land and the Syrian people.
The statement stressed that Syria is determined to defeat this new conspiracy and all the forces behind it.
The United States announced on Thursday that it had authorized foreign investment in parts of northern Syria that are not controlled by the government.
The US Treasury Department has issued a public authorization stating that economic activities in several sectors, including agriculture, construction, finance and health services in these areas, will not be subject to sanctions.
US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, speaking at a meeting of the International Coalition Against ISIS in Morocco in Morocco on Wednesday, said Washington would authorize investment in northeastern Syria, which is largely controlled by the Syrian Kurds.
According to Reuters, he claimed that the purpose of this work is to help rebuild areas that were previously occupied by ISIS terrorists, and that Washington intends to issue a public permit to invest in these areas in a few days.
