FROM EIR DAILY ALERT

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EU Withholding Reconstruction Funds from Syria

April 25, 2018 (EIRNS)—At a two-day donors conference which was concluded in Brussels, today, leading EU officials declared that while humanitarian aid would be granted to Syria, funds for the reconstruction would flow only if a clear roadmap for a transition from the present government under Bashar al Assad to a “democratic process” existed. It is up to Russia and Iran to get this process going by putting pressure on Assad, EU leaders argued.