Extraordinary PSC meeting on Syria on Friday

(BRUSSELS2) An extraordinary meeting of ambassadors from the EU's Political and Security Committee (PSC) is due to take place on Friday (April 29) in Brussels devoted specifically to the situation in Syria. No PSC meeting was normally scheduled before May 3. Diplomats who had planned a vacation will therefore have to return a little earlier. The objective is to allow ambassadors to have a more precise view of the situation. And to be able to adjust the European position, in particular by outlining possible retaliatory measures: political sanctions against certain leaders (visa bans), economic sanctions (freezing of assets). The four EU countries (Great Britain, France, Germany and Portugal) which are members of the United Nations Security Council have, moreover, jointly tabled a draft declaration condemning the repression in Syria.