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The UK and US have imposed sanctions on those responsible for the illicit captagon trade, which independent experts estimate could be worth up to $57 billion.
The UK has announced a fresh round of targeted sanctions on the Assad regime, including close allies of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the Security Council meeting on Syria
The UK government has today announced new sanctions, hitting Putin’s inner circle.
On Monday 17 February new sanctions were imposed by the EU on a further 8 business people and 2 entities who have helped prop up the destructive Syrian regime.
Statement by UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond MP at the UN Security Council Open Debate on the Middle East and North Africa
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius set out in a joint article why Assad cannot be Syria’s future.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
On 28 May the Syrian Chargé d’Affaires was summoned to the Foreign Office to see the Political Director, Sir Geoffrey Adams.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s speech on the Arab Spring delivered at the British Council in London on 22 August 2011.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg spoke about the Arab Spring in a speech to the British Council in London.
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