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6/15/11

European Union considering economic sanctions against Syria.

According to a senior EU diplomats, the European Union is now considering economic sanctions against Syria after their efforts to do so through the UN failed as a result of Chinese and Russian opposition.

This past Tuesday, the EU members France, Great Britain, Germany and Portugal started pushing a Security Council resolution to censure the Syrian government for forcefully suppressing unrest.

Permanent Security Council members Russia and China, which obviously fear to set a precedent if they go along with sanctions that might eventually affect their own countries human rights violations, warned of a veto. They said the Syrian crisis must be sorted out without outside interference in Syria.

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