The process of lifting Syria sanctions

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00:00What types of sanctions have the EU and the US lifted? Are we talking strictly about trade

00:08and financial measures? Or do these actually go further? Thank you for having me first. Okay,

00:15first of all, I mean, there, they haven't left that all this is that's kind of, you know,

00:20plan for lifting. They haven't listed that because the process for lifting the sanction

00:25and to take some time depends on what the type of the sanction. If you're talking,

00:29if we're talking about the US sanction, then we have two type of US sanction. We have the,

00:35you know, the executive sanction and we have the Congress or say the one, the one imposed by Congress,

00:44like the Caesar Act. Okay. So, so when it comes to the, the, the one imposed by the president

00:52of the United States, it's easy by, you know, executive order can just, can be lifted. Okay.

00:58So by the current president, even if that, that sanction was imposed 20 years ago. But when it

01:06comes to the, you know, the statutory, okay, sanction, what do we call it? That one, it,

01:11it requires such a long process. Okay. Just to be lifted.