Exclusive: EU considers lifting sanctions on Syria: oil, gas, banking and transport in view

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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.

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