The EU Foreign Affairs Council has amended the EU sanctions on Syria so as to allow the release of frozen funds of the Central Bank of Syria and of Syrian state-owned entities.The move is in order to make payments on behalf of Syria to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for activities related to the OPCW verification mission and the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons, and in particular to the OPCW Syrian Special Trust Fund, said the Council which met here on Monday, in a statement last night.