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“Another issue is the Western sanctions against several of our companies. Aliaksandr Lukashenko called the sanctions bandit and instructed the government to prepare a symmetrical response,” the state news agency BelTA said in a statement about the president’s meeting with the deputy prime minister. Minister Juris Nazaravas and Minister of Industry Patria Parchomchyk.
On December 17, the EU announced a third package of sanctions against Belarus, which blacklisted 29 natural persons and seven legal persons close to the Alexander Lukashenko regime.
Among the newest people on the list are entrepreneurs Aliaksandr Shakucin and Mikalay Varabey, whose interests range from construction and agriculture to oil. They are the first businessmen affected by the sanctions regime.
Among other things, sanctions were announced against the Attorney General of Belarus, the Minister of Information, the Deputy Prime Minister and the head of state television.
The sanctions also affected seven companies that supported the Lukashenko regime, three private and four state-owned.
These include the arms and military equipment exporter Beltecheksport, the Minsk Horn Tractor Plant (MZKT), Dana Holdings / Dana Astra, a leading real estate developer and builder, Synesis, a tracking platform company for the Belarusian authorities. , and several companies responsible for the implementation of the state military technical policy.
The sanctions prohibit the issuance of visas to blacklisted Belarusian officials and freeze their assets in the bloc.
For the sixth month in a row, Belarus has been plagued by massive protests over the August 9 presidential election, which Lukashenko has ruled the country since 1994.
The opposition and Western democracies claim that the elections were rigged and that the winner is seen as political rookie Sviatlan Cichanouskaya, who replaced her imprisoned husband in the presidential race.
The protesters are demanding the resignation of Lukashenko, the release of political prisoners and new elections.
Cichanouskaya has indicated that a new package of EU sanctions on the Minsk regime will be discussed in Brussels in early 2021.
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