Belarus will expand the sanctions lists against Canada and each of the countries European Union . This was stated by MFA of the republic, reports ” Interfax – West”.
“From today, Belarus is complementing its reciprocal sanctions list for each country in a mirror image,” the ministry said. Lists will not be published yet “within the framework of diplomatic correctness”.
The Foreign Ministry called the “unilateral aggressive narrowing of the field for dialogue” with Belarus a historical mistake of the European bureaucracy and promised a response “to every new destructive step.
“Many lucrative EU projects and areas of relations are guaranteed to be audited, participation in which today is a good will, and not an obligation of the Belarusian side,” the Minsk officials said.
On November 6, the EU imposed sanctions against a number of Belarusian officials, including the President Alexander Lukashenko . Europe holds him responsible for the repression before and after the presidential elections.
November 13, the European Union in a statement in connection with the death of a detainee in Minsk Roman Bondarenko a > announced its readiness to impose additional sanctions.
Mass protests began in Belarus after the presidential elections on August 9, in which, according to official data, Lukashenka won 80 percent of the vote. The first shares were violently accelerated. A criminal case was initiated on attempts to seize power in connection with the creation of the Coordination Council by the opposition.