Europe must end its silence on Syria

ECFR Council members in December 2016 called for European states to provide emergency airlift services in Aleppo and implement additional sanctions on Russia for its complicity in war crimes.

This article was a translation of a petition appeal by ECFR Council members Franziska Brantner and Norbert Röttgen, calling on the European Council in December 2016 to implement sanctions on the Russian leadership for their war crimes in Syria, and calling on European member states to provide emergency airlift services for civilians trapped in Aleppo.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Statement by Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides on the latest bombings in East Aleppo http://www.europeansources.info/record/statement-by-commissioner-for-humanitarian-aid-and-crisis-management-christos-stylianides-on-the-latest-bombings-in-east-aleppo/

ESO: Background information: The first Trump test: European policy and the Siege of Aleppo http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-first-trump-test-european-policy-and-the-siege-of-aleppo/

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