Biden extends national emergency for Syria
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, US President Joe Biden announced that he was extending the national emergency with regard to the Syrian government.
In a statement posted on the White House’s website, Biden explained that the US government would continue the national emergency declared with respect to the actions of the Syrian government for one year, citing “the regime’s brutality and repression of the Syrian people, who have called for freedom and a representative government” in addition to “the Assad regime’s, and its Russian and Iranian enablers’, brutal violence and human rights violations and abuses.”
The statement further called for a cessation of all violence against the Syrian people by the Syrian government, a nationwide ceasefire, the availability of humanitarian aid to all Syrians, and the reaching of a political settlement within the framework of United Nations Security Resolution 2254.
In May 2004, then-US President George Bush issued Executive Order 13338, which declared a national emergency over the actions of the Syrian regime, and put sanctions on certain goods and certain individuals from Syria.