Rep Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) says Syria needs to make changes if it wants the United States to lift sanctions. Lantos, who strongly favored last year’s Syria Accountability Act, visited Damascus on Wednesday and said he would press for a repeal of sanctions imposed by the act once the country ends its association “finally and totally with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.”
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