USA extends Belarus sanctions
US President Barack Obama prolongs the sanctions against Belarus officials as their actions still threaten the security of the United States.
The U.S. President sent the corresponding order to the Congress on Tuesday, June 10, Deutsche Welle reports. The actions and policy of a number of Belarusian officials (including some members of the government) undermine the country’s institutes and democratic principles and violate the human rights by means of political repressions and corruption. Thus, these people ‘are still a threat to the national security and foreign policy of the USA’, the document says.
The sanctions were imposed by the USA in 2006 and have been prolonged every year since then. The property of some Belarusian citizens in America and abroad (if the territory was controlled by the USA) was seized. There are ten people including the Belarusian President, Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs and the head of the state TV and radio broadcasting company among them.
The EU sanctions imposed on official Minsk will expire in October 2014. Representatives of the country’s government and big businessmen are on the EU ‘black list’.
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