BRUSSELS: The EU's diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini on Monday demanded that a UN-backed ceasefire in Syria be implemented "immediately", as fresh government moves on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta killed 10 civilians.
Mogherini said a UN Security Council answer passed Saturday calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria "without delay" was once an "encouraging" step however had to be followed up with action.
Violence has persisted, raising doubts about when and the way extensively the ceasefire will take impact, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting the deaths of a minimum of 10 people in Eastern Ghouta on Monday.
The Security Council answer was once a "necessary and encouraging step but a first step," Mogherini said as she arrived for a meeting of EU overseas ministers in Brussels.
"Now that resolution needs to be immediately implemented, to have monitoring mechanisms."
The bloc additionally added Syria's new data and trade ministers to its sanctions blacklist following their appointment last month. A total of 257 people are now subject to EU commute bans and asset freezes over their function in the Syrian battle.
Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said the placement in Ghouta was once a "disgrace", describing it as just like the "Middle Ages".
More than 500 people had been killed in a major bombing campaign by means of President Bashar al-Assad's forces that has hammered the enclave on the edge of Damascus for over per week.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron advised Russian President Vladimir Putin, a key best friend of the Syrian government, to make use of his affect to achieve a truce.
Mogherini said a UN Security Council answer passed Saturday calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria "without delay" was once an "encouraging" step however had to be followed up with action.
Violence has persisted, raising doubts about when and the way extensively the ceasefire will take impact, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting the deaths of a minimum of 10 people in Eastern Ghouta on Monday.
The Security Council answer was once a "necessary and encouraging step but a first step," Mogherini said as she arrived for a meeting of EU overseas ministers in Brussels.
"Now that resolution needs to be immediately implemented, to have monitoring mechanisms."
The bloc additionally added Syria's new data and trade ministers to its sanctions blacklist following their appointment last month. A total of 257 people are now subject to EU commute bans and asset freezes over their function in the Syrian battle.
Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said the placement in Ghouta was once a "disgrace", describing it as just like the "Middle Ages".
More than 500 people had been killed in a major bombing campaign by means of President Bashar al-Assad's forces that has hammered the enclave on the edge of Damascus for over per week.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron advised Russian President Vladimir Putin, a key best friend of the Syrian government, to make use of his affect to achieve a truce.
EU calls for immediate Syria ceasefire
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