Damascus Mulls Arab League Sanctions
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November 29, 2011

VOA Information

Syria claims it is thinking about methods to offer with sanctions imposed by the Arab League.

In a Tuesday information conference, the country's info minister Adnan Mahmoud stated the nation is "self-adequate" and has a "stockpile" of meals and fundamental materials.

The state-operate information company SANA claims the minister commented following a Cabinet meeting on the league's sanctions, which had been declared Sunday. There was no instant term on what methods Damascus is thinking about.

Sanctions could have way reaching impacts on trade and banking.

On Sunday, the 22-member league imposed unprecedented penalties that consist of asset freezes and journey bans. The league took the motion following Syria failed to take a strategy to permit global screens to enter the nation.

Syria is dealing with mounting foreign strain to finish its lethal crackdown on dissent, but violence has continued to escalate.

An activist with the Syrian Observatory for Human Legal rights stated Tuesday that federal government forces have publicly executed 22 activists in a Damascus suburb and arrested about six hundred individuals. The opposition team claims the suburb had been below siege because Sunday.

Meanwhile, the United States and Germany say the U.N. Protection Council should reply to Syria's crackdown, following U.N. investigators comprehensive grave legal rights abuses they say had been ordered by the "best amounts" of President Bashar al-Assad's federal government.

On Monday, a U.N. commission investigating allegations of human legal rights violations in Syria accused federal government troops of "summary execution, arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, torture, sexual violence, as nicely as violations of children's legal rights."

Turkey stated Tuesday that it might shift its Center East trade routes to go via Iraq -- reducing out Syria as a transit nation if unrest there worsens and embargoes in opposition to Damascus go into impact.

Also Tuesday, Saudi Arabia urged its citizens to depart Syria simply because of mounting unrest.

In an additional improvement, EU foreign ministers will vote Thursday on proposals to additional limit trade and financial dealings with Damascus.

The United Nations stated in early November that much more than three,five hundred individuals have been killed because March in link with the uprising.

Some info for this report was supplied by AFP and Reuters.