Damascus, May 20 (Xinhua-ANI): Syria on Saturday described sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) and the United States as "economic terrorism," saying the punitive measures had inflicted great impacts on the daily lives of the Syrians.
In a report addressed to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Secretary General, Syrian Foreign Ministry said the countries that have imposed sanctions are hypocrisies as they use human rights as a cover to interfere in other countries' affairs and exert their control over them.
The Syrian people had a very harsh winter, suffering from shortages of fuel and electricity last winter following exporting bans by the United States, the EU and Canada.
They were deprived of heating fuel at home and a large number of public and private factories had to halt operations, leaving workers and their families victims to unemployment.
The situations were made even worse by armed terrorist groups, the report said, adding that they "have crowned their supporters' efforts toward imposing collective sanctions on the Syrian people through detonating and looting gas oil tanks and using domestic gas containers as bombs to kill the Syrians."
The ministry said that collective sanctions against the Syrian people are illegal and aimed at punishing the Syrian people for not implementing foreign agendas on the Syrian ground.
Those countries' practices against the Syrian people are quite similar to those of the armed terrorist groups which are killing and terrorizing the Syrians to prevent them from expressing their views on protecting their country against chaos and terrorism.
Syria called on the international community to condemn these sanctions against the developing countries, and called for complete and unconditional implementation of the UN General Assembly resolutions which consider sanctions imposed by countries without authorization from the UN as violations of human rights.
In Syria, violence has showed no sign of abating. A suicide bombing that rattled a military housing complex early Saturday in the eastern province of Dier al-Zour killed nine people and wounded 100 others.
A day earlier, the Syrian authorities foiled two explosion attempts by booby-trapped cars in Dier al-Zour and a suburb of the capital Damascus.
Several explosive devices went off Friday, resulting in property damages. The blasts are part of the new bombing trend that has been plaguing Syria over the past months.
Many observers believed that al-Qaida is exploiting the chaos in Syria in order to achieve strategic gains by playing on the "sectarian nerve" in a country that is known for its remarkable melange of sects and beliefs.
Also on Saturday, visiting UN under-secretary-general for peacekeeping Herve Ladsous said in Syria that the UN mission aims basically to help save lives by confirming the reduction on the level of overall violence and thereby helping create some different conditions that could be conducive to a political process in order to shore up the initiative of UN-Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan.
After the bombing incident, a group of UN observers rushed to the scene to examine the site.
Ladsous said the observers' mission to Syria is reaching complete deployment of unarmed military monitors, saying that a number of them have been undergoing training before being deployed on the ground.
Ladsous arrived in Syria on Friday for a three-day visit, along with other two senior UN officials, to check on the deployment of the observers across Syria.
Annan has said that the number of observers will reach the maximum of 300 by the end of this month. (Xinhua-ANI)
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