Stockholm, SANA- The Syrian community in Sweden called for lifting the coercive European economic measures imposed on Syria to face the earthquake repercussions hit it on February 6th. In a letter addressed to the Parliament, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the European Parliament office in Stockholm, the members of the community called on Sweden, as it the current President of the European Union, to lift the European coercive economic sanctions imposed on Syria so that it can face the repercussions of the earthquake. They referred that this natural catastrophe has exacerbated the humanitarian situation and the difficulties that the Syrian people are suffering from as a result of the ongoing terrorist war for 12 years, the continuation of the economic blockade and the illegal coercive measures that deprived the Syrian citizens of the most basic necessities of life. Fedaa al-Rhayiah /MHD Ibrahim