date:May 07, 2014
te-run General Foreign Trade Organisation, which imports foodstuffs, acknowledged the problems, though it did recently manage to take two small shipments totalling 20,000 tonnes of sugar from Iran.
The organisation is working toward activating the Iranian credit line after it faced several difficulties at the beginning of the year, Taweel told a Syrian state newspaper last week.
But Syria's needs are greater than ever, as civil strife damages its own food production.
The International Grains