DUBAI, April 20: Syria will face “sanctions” if it continues to support extremist movements such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said an in interview published on Sunday.
“If Syria decided to maintain its support for terrorism, particularly of Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad in Palestine, we will be forced to impose sanctions and other political measures on it,” Mr Armitage told the Al-Khaleej daily.
Mr Armitage, whose remarks were printed in Arabic, did not spell out what the “sanctions” would entail.—AFP
