Trump is expected to sign executive orders to reduce the sanctions of Syria

Washington President Trump is expected to sign an executive order soon to reduce sanctions on Syria, and they are aware of the expected thing that tells CBS News.

The expected executive order comes after Mr. Trump I announced in May During a trip to the Middle East, the United States will raise all sanctions on the country. While he was in the Middle East, Mr. Trump met with Syrian President Ahmed Al -Sharra, who announced a transitional government in March. Assad’s system Collapse Under the weight of an attack by the opposition forces.

The transitional government has prompted the Syrian administration to reduce the sanctions for several months, and some of the actions were underway to alleviate some sanctions since before the president’s declaration.

Some sanctions will still need to officially abolish Congress, and some of the sanctions in force in Syria dating back to 1979, when Syria was appointed as a sponsor of terrorism.

Last month, the Ministry of Treasury issued official guidelines to decline some sanctions on banks, airlines and a slogan. It has also issued instructions for approved transactions in Syria, including infrastructure projects. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessin said at the time that the measures were designed to encourage investment in Syria.

“President Trump promised, the Treasury and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are implementing licenses to encourage the new investment in Syria,” said Pesen. “Syria must also continue to work in order to become a stable country in peace, and we hope that today’s actions will be placed on a path to a bright, prosperous and stable future.”

The new transitional government blamed the sanctions-which includes sanctions on the third countries to do business in Syria-because the country is unable to pay civil service salaries, rebuild large parts of war cities and rebuild the war-off health care system.

Türkiye and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, two American allies in the region, have supported the normalization of relations with the new government in Syria. Both countries provided assistance to Syria, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia offered to pay some of the country’s debts, two activities that may contradict the sanctions. The Saudis see an opportunity to win the new Syrian government alongside them, after decades from the country allied with their supreme regional rival, Iran, while the Assad regime was in power.

Relief was a major topic in the meetings between Syrian officials, including the governor of the Central Bank, Abd al -Kaddar Hausre, and other world leaders in the meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank last month in Washington.

Some punitive measures have been imposed over the past two decades on the Assad regime due to human rights violations and the support of specific groups by the United States as terrorist organizations. The Assad government collapsed in December when the rebel groups, including the fighters led by Shara, Damascus, were swept, where it ended a 13 -year civil war.

In 2003, then President George W. Bush signed the accountability law in Syria in the law, which focuses on Syria’s support for terrorist groups designed in the United States such as Hezbollah, the presence of Syria’s military in Lebanon, as well as the alleged development of weapons of mass destruction, smuggling oil and supporting armed groups in fatigue after 2003.

Catherine Watson

He contributed to this report.