.- The foreign ministers of the European Union will consider on Monday whether to extend EU sanctions against Syria, the country's president, Bashar al-Assad, after today the ambassadors of the Twenty secured no decision. According to diplomatic sources, "the works are still ongoing" and will head Europe's diplomats who completed the discussions.
The EU has in place sanctions against 13 senior Syrian officials, which prohibits the entry into community land and has frozen their assets. These include prominent personalities like the president's brother Maher al-Assad, considered the main architect of violence against demonstrators, but not that of Bashar al-Asad himself.
Today, there is an agreement in principle in the EU to include the president from among those sentenced in case the situation in Syria will not evolve, but the point will eventually be treated by foreign ministers. The meeting of European ambassadors today came alongside the announcement in Washington that the U.S.
and the European Union are preparing new sanctions against Syria. This was announced by the High Representative of the Union, Catherine Ashton, and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, but gave no details. The sanctions, in principle, be announced before the U.S. president, Barack Obama, say on Thursday awaited speech on the Middle East, which will refer to the processes of civil unrest in North Africa and Middle East Response United States. 
The EU has in place sanctions against 13 senior Syrian officials, which prohibits the entry into community land and has frozen their assets. These include prominent personalities like the president's brother Maher al-Assad, considered the main architect of violence against demonstrators, but not that of Bashar al-Asad himself.
Today, there is an agreement in principle in the EU to include the president from among those sentenced in case the situation in Syria will not evolve, but the point will eventually be treated by foreign ministers. The meeting of European ambassadors today came alongside the announcement in Washington that the U.S.
and the European Union are preparing new sanctions against Syria. This was announced by the High Representative of the Union, Catherine Ashton, and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, but gave no details. The sanctions, in principle, be announced before the U.S. president, Barack Obama, say on Thursday awaited speech on the Middle East, which will refer to the processes of civil unrest in North Africa and Middle East Response United States.
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