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'Astonishing Short-Sightedness': EU Syria Sanctions Increase Refugee Influx

© AFP 2023 / Louisa GouliamakiA Syrian refugee holds a two-month old baby as refugees and migrants who broke out from Chios detention camp, and camped out in the port of the city, stage a protest with their children chanting 'No Turkey' on April 3, 2016.
A Syrian refugee holds a two-month old baby as refugees and migrants who broke out from Chios detention camp, and camped out in the port of the city, stage a protest with their children chanting 'No Turkey' on April 3, 2016. - Sputnik International
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The European Union's "astonishing short-sightedness" of imposing sanctions on Damascus pushes Syrian refugees to Europe, Russia's envoy to the UN Geneva Office told Sputnik.

GENEVA (Sputnik) — The European Union’s sanctions against the Syrian government only serve to push temporarily displaced people in territories under its control out to Europe, Russian envoy to the UN Geneva Office Alexei Borodavkin warned in a Sputnik interview on Wednesday.

"The issue of some 7 million of temporarily displaced persons inside Syria is the key one. The majority of them live in government-controlled territories. If they do not receive help, they will flee Syria and go to Europe. But our European colleagues do not seem to notice this and maintain their unilateral sanctions against Syria…This short-sightedness is simply astonishing. Sanctions should be scrapped in order to keep temporarily displaced persons inside Syria," Borodavkin said.

Europe is facing its most serious migration crisis since the end of the Second World War, which is the result of the armed conflicts and economic problems in the Middle East and North Africa.

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