Syria said Saturday that the EU sanctions imposed on Syria over the past year are "economic terrorism" against Syrian people.

In a report addressed to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Secretary General, Syrian Foreign Ministry said the stances of countries that have imposed sanctions are characterized by " hypocrisy" as they use human rights as a cover to interfere in other countries' affairs and exert their control over them.

It also wondered what are the reasons behind freezing assets of Popular Credit Bank, Post Saving Fund, Real Estate Bank, Industrial Bank and Agricultural Bank, "which are all for the service of the Syrian people, as they attract low and middle income people and small investors, and are considered important tools to activate the economy."

The report reviewed the role the sanctions played in the fuel and electricity crises last winter, underscoring how the United States, the EU and Canada banned exporting oil derivatives to Syria, including domestic gas and diesel, depriving the people of heating fuel and the farmers of heating fuel for winter farms.

It also explained how this ban caused large number of public and private factories to halt, leaving workers and their families victims to unemployment.

The report added that armed terrorist groups have crowned their supporters' efforts towards imposing collective sanctions on the Syrian people through detonating and looting gas oil tanks and using domestic gas containers as bombs to kill the Syrians.

"The other countries which imposed sanctions took control of tightening the blockade on the Syrian people through banning oil transfer to Syria onboard any tanker carrying their flags," the report continued, noting that this gives only "a simple example of these countries' connivance to impose their will on the millions of Syrian citizens not minding the extent of damage they have caused."

The ministry described the latest U.S. and European sanctions on Syria as "economic terrorism," referring to the U.S. president' s decision on May 1, 2012, in which sanctions were imposed on citizens and establishments in countries which do not abide by the U.S. sanctions on Syria. It said that collective sanctions against the Syrian people are illegal and aimed at punishing the Syrian people for rejecting to implement foreign agendas on the Syrian ground.

The report added that those countries' practices against the Syrian people are quite similar to those of the armed terrorist groups which are killing and terrorizing the Syrians to prevent them from expressing their views on protecting their country against chaos and terrorism.

Syria called on the international community to condemn these other sanctions against the developing countries, and called for complete and unconditional implementation of the UN General Assembly resolutions which consider sanctions imposed by countries without authorization from the UN as violations of human rights.