{"id":138346,"date":"2025-03-18T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/donors-pledge-billions-as-syria-calls-for-sanctions-relief\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T09:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T07:15:36","slug":"donors-pledge-billions-as-syria-calls-for-sanctions-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/donors-pledge-billions-as-syria-calls-for-sanctions-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors pledge billions as Syria calls for sanctions relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138346\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Donors pledged billions for Syria at an EU-led conference. But investing in the country is still fraught with difficulty due to sanctions. The EU plans to further ease restrictions, but US plans remain unclear. The foreign minister of Syria&#8217;s new interim government stood side by side with the EU&#8217;s foreign affairs chief as officials from dozens of countries crammed together for a family photo at an international donor drive in Brussels on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Asaad Al-Shibani&#8217;s front-and-center spot showed how Syrian authorities&#8217; efforts to shed their extremist image are paying off in Europe. In the early days after the ouster of former dictator Bashar Assad, the EU wouldn&#8217;t even pick up the phone to the Islamist rebels who toppled him. But the optimism of those early days has also been replaced by some bleaker realities in Syria. Deadly sectarian violence in coastal areas has sparked fears of even more death and instability; and rebuilding after decades of dictatorship and civil war is proving far from easy \u2014 especially with the country remaining largely cut off from international financial systems.<\/p>\n<p>The EU-led donor drive drummed up some \u20ac5.8 billion ($6.3 billion) in grants and loans to support Syria and neighboring countries. Germany pledged \u20ac300 million, while the EU upped its overall contribution to some \u20ac2.12 billion. Kathryn Achilles of the Norwegian Refugee Council called the pledges a &#8221;demonstration of global solidarity for the Syrian people&#8221; which must &#8221;be a starting point for continued support.&#8221; But the total amount generated was significantly less than last year&#8217;s edition of the conference, which drew some \u20ac7.5 billion. And in line with recent US aid cuts, Washington signaled little appetite to boost its support. &#8221;We will continue to provide certain assistance in line with US policies and laws, but we also now expect that other nations are going to help shoulder the financial burden the United States has long carried,&#8221; US envoy Natasha Franceschi said on Monday in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Sources on the sidelines of the talks attributed the overall drop to stretched public coffers, and governments sticking to a cautious line when it comes to lending more support to those now in power in Damascus \u2014 particularly in light of recent coastal clashes.<br \/>\nOutside the donor diplomacy, the EU faced a key question ahead of Monday&#8217;s event: Should that violence prompt the bloc to step back, or should it continue its plan to engage with the new authorities and gradually suspend sanctions imposed on Syria over Assad-era violations?<\/p>\n<p>And ministers seemed to reach an almost uncharacteristically quick consensus.&#8221;At this moment, if we want to prevent further violence, we need to give the people hope in Syria,&#8221; EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said on Monday when pressed by DW on the way ahead. She warned that Syrians being unable to work and propser would lead to chaos. &#8221;Chaos could create civil war,&#8221; she added. &#8221;Right now, we are going with our plan to relieve the sanctions. But of course, we are keeping a very, very close eye on the actions taken by Syria&#8217;s new leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;How they are reacting and prosecuting the people who conducted this violent massacre in the coastal areas. I think this is very important to see,&#8221; Kallas said. Syrian authorities have set up an independent committee to investigate the sectarian killings and vowed to hold perpetrators accountable. &#8221;Let&#8217;s see if this commission has teeth,&#8221; one EU diplomat said when asked what they made of Damascus&#8217; response.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/eu-pledges-billions-for-syria-but-sanctions-keep-economy-shut-off\/a-71956471\">DW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/donors-pledge-billions-as-syria-calls-for-sanctions-relief\/\">Donors pledge billions as Syria calls for sanctions relief<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[18253,2211,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-138346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-donors-pledge-billions","tag-syria","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}