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The second element that I seek to probe is the conditionality of these measures. The Minister rightly said that they are kept under review, but Ministers have said that about every sanction that has ever been put in place. Because of the concerns about human rights in Syria, I believe that there should be some degree of linkage of the reporting of activities on the ground and the continuation of the sanctions. These are sanctions as long as the Government wish them to be, and I would like, after perhaps three or six months, or a reasonable amount of time, for the Government to come back to Parliament and state their assessment of the progress being made against the bullet points in the instrument.