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Sanctions cost Syria almost $5 billion: oil minister

Reported by Straits Times on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 (on May 23, 2012)
Straits Times
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Western sanctions on Syria for its deadly crackdown on dissent have cost the country almost US$4 billion (S$5 billion) and caused shortages in fuel products, Oil Minister Sufian Allaw said on Wednesday.

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