European countries have been grappling with how to handle new regime following downfall of Bashar al-Assad, with timeline for lifting sanctions moving onto agenda.
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00:00The European Union is laying preliminary ground to a wide-range lifting of sanctions on Syria,
00:10according to a non-paper seen by Euronews.
00:13The bloc is considering lifting sanctions on transportation, exports of oil and gas,
00:18and financial and banking activities.
00:21The informal EU document says that any possible change to terrorist designations of al-Qaeda-affiliated
00:26groups, like Syria's ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, must be implemented at the UN Security Council
00:32level before the bloc adopts it.
00:35The paper says that delisting terror groups will have to be conditions-based as to prevent
00:39any risk of financing terrorism.
00:42The non-paper was produced by the EU Council for Negotiations and is expected to be substantively
00:48discussed during a meeting of EU foreign ministers on January 27.
00:53The document states that the country's ousted president, Bashar al-Assad, and affiliates
00:58cannot benefit from the lifting and will still be subjected to sanctions.