Hague welcomes sanctions on 'criminal regime'

I strongly welcome the EU’s agreement today to impose sanctions on an additional two oil companies and a further 12 individuals closely associated with the brutal repression being carried out by the Syrian regime. This is a further step in tightening the economic and diplomatic stranglehold on this criminal regime. The message to those who continue to side with Assad is clear – the violence must end and those responsible will be held to account.