PARIS (Reuters) - Western sanctions on Syria have almost halved its foreign currency reserves and reduced oil production by 30 percent, costing Bashar al-Assad's government 400 million euros ($520 million) a month in revenue, French diplomatic sources said.
Officials from almost sixty countries, including the European Union and the Arab League, meet in Paris on Tuesday to discuss the efficiency of sanctions imposed on Syria to raise pressure on Assad to comply with a U.N.-backed peace plan.
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