EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) syria

16/12/2013 (Agence Europe) - EU28 amend restrictive measures. On 13 December, the Council of the EU adopted several amendments to the EU restrictive measures against Syria. The ministers thus authorised the import or transport of chemical weapons or related material from Syria into the EU “if such movements are in support of the work of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons”. Conversely, the Council prohibits the...