SHAHEEN, ERNST, WILSON STATEMENT ON U.S. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION SUPPORT TO SYRIA

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member issued the following news release:

Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-IA) along with Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, issued the below statement regarding the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation's (DFC) support to Syria.

"We commend Syria's Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, under the leadership of Minister Hind Kabawat, for updating Syria's Assad-era labor law in consultation with Syrian stakeholders and experts. We look forward to swift action once the law is sent to the new People's Assembly. ...