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“We no longer see the point of continuing the human rights dialogue with the European Union,” he told Belarus 1 on state television.
According to Makey, the dialogue will be suspended until “the European Union decides to change the policy of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank, which at this stage have decided to freeze cooperation programs with Belarus.”
The minister said the EU and other countries were trying to criticize Belarus for “human rights and democracy issues”.
“It just came to our notice then. We see this in the United Nations Human Rights Council and in a string of other organizations,” Makey said.
According to him, Belarus is ready to respond appropriately to the sanctions. The Minister said that among the concrete steps are the expansion of the list of persons subject to sanctions, as well as the suspension of the activities of the Belarus-EU coordination group.
“All these measures are just a reaction to the provocative and destructive measures taken by our European partners towards Belarus,” McKay said.
Belarus has faced massive protests for the fourth month in a row since the August 9 presidential election, which was declared the winner by Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western democracies consider these elections rigged.
The EU is already sanctioning more than 50 officials of the Minsk regime, including Mr. Lukashenko, for electoral fraud and violence against protesters.
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