He told about it during the meeting of the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia on the return of refugees to the territory of Syria.
"Consultations continue with all leading Western and regional partners to lift unilateral financial and economic sanctions against Syria," Tass quotes him.
Earlier, the UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on rights and freedoms Idriss Jazairi proposed to create within the organization a special mechanism that will allow Damascus to weaken the regime of Western sanctions imposed against Syria.
Also, according to the FAN, in the Syrian province of Hasaka, with the support of the Syrian Ministry of Health and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), measles vaccination targeting children has been organized.