The world community should consider canceling part of the sanctions against Syria in order to encourage the new authorities of that country to build a democratic system of governance, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in Davos.
"I think it would be possible to make some gesture of goodwill in the field of sanctions, so that Syria has an incentive to move in the right direction," Interfax quoted him as saying. According to Guterres, the new Syrian leadership has the opportunity to create a system of governance will take into account the interests of all the inhabitants of the country, including the Alawis and the Kurds.
He believes that if this cannot be achieved, then there will be no de facto unified Syria.
