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It was decided to freeze the property and not to issue visas to 78 natural persons and 8 legal entities in Belarus. Businessmen, members of Aliaksandr Lukashenko’s family, prosecutors, rectors of academic institutions, judges, high-ranking military officials and others were blacklisted.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Monday called for broad economic sanctions against Belarus.
The minister made this call before the meeting of the heads of diplomacy of the European Union countries, where additional criminal measures were discussed for the Minsk regime for the crash landing of passenger airline Ryanair last month.
“I think additional sanctions against Belarus are inevitable,” Maas told Die Welt.
“We must impose sanctions in certain areas of the Belarusian economy, such as the potash fertilizer industry or the energy sector. We must deprive the Minsk regime of access to funds for the distribution of bonds in the European Union,” he said.
EU foreign ministers will meet in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss sectoral sanctions on Belarus.
New sanctions targeting key sectors of the Belarusian economy are being considered, including exports of potash fertilizers, the tobacco sector, oil and petrochemicals.
Ministers meeting in Luxembourg are discussing comprehensive measures against the “wallet” of authoritarian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko’s regime, a European diplomat told AFP news agency on Friday.
“We are talking about sanctions that will be painful,” added the diplomat.
According to diplomats, restrictions on the export of weapons and equipment that could be used to suppress protesters should also be tightened.
Sector sanctions are being considered following an incident in May in which a Ryanair plane carrying more than a hundred passengers from Athens to Vilnius was forcibly landed in Minsk after Belarusian controllers informed it of the suspected explosive, although this information was not confirmed later.
To take over the ocean liner, the Minsk regime had sent a fighter jet.
Raman Pratasevičius, an opposition blogger, and his friend Sofia Sapega, a Russian citizen studying in Vilnius, were detained as the plane landed in the Belarusian capital.
As a result of the incident, EU countries closed their airspace to Belarusian planes and asked airlines to stop flying over the country.
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