GENEVA – The Swiss government has applied an existing set of trade sanctions against Syria to the national airline, two other business organizations and 25 more people.
Spokeswoman Antje Baertschi of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, known as SECO, said Wednesday the action makes Switzerland’s sanctions applied to Syria last year “consistent” with those of the 27-nation European Union.
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Baertschi says the sanctions now extend to Syrian Arab Airlines and include all financial and airport ground support it would have been provided, effectively blocking its national airline from operating on Swiss soil.
In a statement SECO says two other companies affected are the Aleppo-based national cotton production regulator known as the Cotton Marketing Organization and Drex Technologies SA because of owner Rami Makhlouf’s support for his cousin President Bashar Assad.
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