Syria ready to finalize association agreement with the EU
Syria announced on Thursday full readiness to finalize the association agreement with the European Union and to merge with the world economy. Opening a symposium on "Realistic Challenges to the Syria-EU Association Agreement," Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affaires Abdullah al-Dardari said that "we had to stick to signing the agreement so as to keep Syria's "economic interests as well her sovereignty and prosperity." "We are ready for the partnership with the European Union as well to cooperate with the world economy, " Dardari said. Syria's future is linked in more than one aspect with the future of the Mediterranean area, he added, noting that Syria realizes there were reciprocated concerns by inking the Syria-EU Association Agreement, and that legislative and legal reforms were necessary for the partnership as they were without it. He noted that Syria's principal was to walk with a comprehensive and clear national vision for the future, to remove hinders obstructing the full development march, and to work to collaborate efforts in order to move from the market economy of monopoly into a social competitive economy that fulfills the interests of all sectors in the society.
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