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On Monday, the Migration Department released the names of 30 Belarusian officials subject to national sanctions.
The list includes Mr. Lukashenko and his son Viktor Lukashenko, National Security Advisor, the current head of the Lukashenko administration, Igor Sergejenka, as well as Interior Minister Yuriy Karayev, Vice Ministers Gennady Kazakevich, Sergei Chomenko and Alexander Barsukov, Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) President Valery Vakulchik, Deputy Sergei Terebov, Chairman of the State Control Committee Ivan Tertel, Commander of the Internal Armed Forces Yuri Nazarenka, Attorney General Alexander Konyuk.
Sanctions will also be applied to one of the leaders of the Minsk militia, Ivan Kubrakov, employees of the Ministry of Justice Irina Celikovec, the chairman of the Investigation Commission Ivan Noskevičius and others.
All members of the Central Election Commission will not be able to come to Lithuania.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia announced national sanctions against Belarusian officials who contributed to electoral fraud and violence against peaceful protesters.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius stated that this was only the first step in responding to events in Belarus. The list of people who have been banned from entering Lithuania can be expanded.
New sanctions were imposed on the Lukashenko regime for rigged presidential elections and violence against peaceful protesters. After the first manifestations of electoral fraud, some 7,000 people were arrested. of the people who left the detention center said they had been brutally beaten, several people died.
Linkevičius: I think the list of 118 people submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be examined later.
Chancellor Linas Linkevičius states that in a first stage it was decided to synchronize the “black list” applied to Belarusian officials with Latvia and Estonia. According to the minister, this is the reason why the approved list of authorized persons contains only 30 surnames. L. Linkevičius believes that the supplemented list submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, consisting of 118 people, will be examined later.
“The proposal has been presented to the Ministry of the Interior, I think it will be considered. It was decided that the first stage would be synchronized with Latvia and Estonia, ”said LRT L. Linkevičius.
The Minister points out that the national “blacklists” of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are a more tangible reaction to events in Belarus. L. Linkevičius also admits that the national “blacklists” of the Baltic States are not identical.
“Maybe the lists are a little different, potentially it shows that we can join each other’s list, but the point was to have a more tangible reaction, not just evaluations of events, condemnation, but also some more significant signal, we did it together. Latvians and Estonians, ”said the minister.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that the current leader of Belarus, Aliaksandr Lukashenko, the people around him, the KGB, the Ministry of the Interior, OMON, as well as the Central Election Commission, which is in charge of falsifying the results of the elections are listed on Lithuania’s national “black list”.
L. Linkevičius also reports that the Government has already started to consider the aid package for the population of Belarus.
“It just came to our notice then. The government has also started to consider a package of measures to help the people of Belarus in relation to victims of repression, educational assistance, development cooperation projects, a visa issuance mechanism. more flexible and facilitated, which is important for many, ”said the Foreign Minister, noting that more than a dozen Belarusians came to Lithuania, trying to hide from the repression.
For his part, Žygimantas Pavilionis, a member of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic faction Union of the Seimas Homeland, reacted to the list of 30 people sanctioned for falsifying the presidential elections in Belarus and the violence against protesters in Minsk, although only that was approved document. It was proposed to impose sanctions on more than 100 officers of the Belarusian force on the basis of the Magnicki Law.
ELTA recalls that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) proposed last week the imposition of sanctions on more than a hundred Belarusians responsible for violence against peaceful protesters and for manipulating the presidential elections.
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