Lifting US sanction will positively affect our region – NE Syria residents
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Residents of northeast Syria expressed their expectations that excluding the region from the US Caesar Act sanctions will make it a potential place for the investors and industrialists.
This came during a survey conducted by North Press. The survey included almost all areas of northeast Syria to monitor the opinions of its residents about the US lifting Caesar Act sanctions on northeast Syria.
On the 14th of May, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian government in Damascus condemned Washington’s exclusion of northeastern and northwestern Syria from the Caesar Act sanctions.
Aida al-Jolan, a resident of Deir ez-Zor, is optemistic after excluding the region from the US sanctions, “Caesar law caused a stifling crisis in the region,” she said.
“Lifting the Caesar Act sanctions is not enough to improve the living situation. The supporting sides and the international community should focus on providing assistance to increase the connection with other regions by opening the river crossings,” she added.
Hopes for agricultural investments
“This decision should improve the agricultural reality on which the region depends by approximately 80 percent,” Zuheir al-Hassan, a civil activist from Raqqa, said.
“This step should help in the reconstruction of the infrastructure, which has been damaged due to the prolonged war,” he added.
Positive reactions
Ahmed Hami, a resident of Hasakah, draws attention to the fact that this decision is supposed to positively reflect on the very high prices. He expects that the prices will go down in the coming period.
Meanwhile, Abd al-Khualef, 40, from al-Shaddadi, calls for the Autonomous Administration to provide facilities for companies that will enter to invest in the region.
The beginning of problem solving
Muhammad al-Faris, an administrative official in the Teachers Union in Tabqa, believes that lifting the sanctions is the beginning of the political and economic solution to the problems that the region is suffering from.
Farouk al-Hussein, a resident of Manbij, believes that this decision would “achieve the political stability in the region.”