The Council of the EU adopted on Friday 6 November sanctions - freezing their assets and banning them from travelling to the EU - against eight new Syrian Ministers, all of whom were appointed last August.
They are the Ministers of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Bassam Tou’ma, Industry, Ziyad Sabbagh, Electricity, Ghassan Zamel, Health, Hassan Ghabache, and Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Mohammad Hassan Qatana. Mohamad Fayez Barcha, Malloul Hussein and Mohammad Samir Haddad, all...