SYRIA THREATENS TO ABANDON DOLLAR FOR EURO

(automatic translation from an Italian article)

(AGI) - Damascus, 13 feb. - Syria threatens to leave the dollar in favor of the euro if the United States will intensify the endorsements against Damascus. According to the official daily paper Ath-Thawra,”all the ministers and the businesses of the nation is going to have to adopting euro instead of the dollar in order to settle the amounts due to the foreign parts”. ”The euro - that the newspaper writes, citing an official note guaranteed from the authorities. - can replace the dollar too in contracts of import-export”. In this way Damascus has decided to answer to the pressures of the USA who have accused Syria of becoming sending of this attack to the premier libanese, Rafiq Hariri. The USA endorsements, in energy from 2004, stop to Syria to import produced Americans, made exclusion for the foods and nal ones. (AGI)