Syria’s foreign minister says the Arab League’s newly approved sanctions against Syria amount to “a declaration of economic war.”
Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem’s remarks at a televised appearance in Damascus on Monday come one day after the Arab League approved sweeping sanctions targeting Syria for its crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising. The U.N. says more than 3,500 people have been killed.
Al-Moallem told reporters that the Arab League and others refuse to believe that there is a foreign conspiracy against Syria.
The sanctions by Syria’s Arab neighbors are expected to squeeze an ailing economy that already is under sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union.
via The Associated Press: Syrian FM calls Arab sanctions ‘economic war’.
