Editor's Note: We added "The Setup" to the title because this sounds oh so familiar. The libyanization of Syria by the imperialists is well underway.

- Axis of Logic

The Syrian Justice and Information Ministers, Tayseer Qala Awwad and Adnan Hassan Mahmoud, have been banned from entering the EU countries, while their assets in Europe are being blocked.

The move is part of the fresh sanctions against Syria that came into force earlier this Saturday. Yesterday, the EU Council approved the seventh package of sanctions against the authorities of Syria, which is swept by antigovernment protests.

The sanctions comprise a ban on investing in the oil sector, granting bank loans, the purchase and enlargement of participation shares in Syrian companies, and also setting up joint ventures.

The EU banned the member states on the second of this month from importing Syrian oil. Antigovernment protests erupted in Syria in the middle of March. The opposition is pressing for President Bashar Abbas’s resignation and political transformations.  

Source: "Voice of Russia"