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EU lifts sanctions on Syrian airline Cham Wings
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DAMASCUS, 21 July 2022, (TON): The European Union has lifted sanctions on Syrian airline Cham Wings, representatives for the EU and the airline said, after the privately owned company was blacklisted over accusations it was helping smuggle migrants into the bloc.
The EU imposed the sanctions in December, accusing it of flying people to Belarus so they could then illegally cross the EU's external borders in what flared up into a migration and humanitarian crisis
The airline had already been blacklisted by the United States, who said the Syrian government had used the airline to transport militants, weapons, and other equipment during the conflict raging in the country since 2011.
According to a statement by an EU spokesperson “the EU decision to remove it from the sanctions list was signed on July 18 by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.”
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