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“There should be no slowdown in any company … If necessary – [gali būti įvesta] Lukashenko said after hearing the report of the governor of the Grodno region Vladzimir Karanik on the economic situation in the region.
“Month there [Vakarų sankcijų sugriežtinimui] we were preparing, we knew what was threatening us, ”said the president.
On Monday, EU foreign ministers approved plans to impose sanctions on Belarusian economic sectors, such as exports of potash fertilizers and petroleum products, which bring significant revenue to the Minsk regime. These measures respond to an incident at the end of May in which a Ryanair liner flying from Athens to Vilnius was forced to land in Minsk. At the same time, officials detained Raman Pratasevich, a Belarusian opposition blogger who had flown on the plane, and his friend Sofia Sapega, a Russian citizen studying in Vilnius.
The measures against the Belarusian regime envisaged in the four EU sanctions packages announced so far currently apply to a total of 166 natural persons and 15 legal persons.
Aliaksandr Lukashenko
Belarus has been in crisis for months after the August presidential elections. Lukashenko, who has ruled the country with an iron fist since 1994, has been declared the winner, but the opposition and Western democracies believe the election was rigged.
The United States also extended sanctions to Minsk on Monday; his example was soon followed by the United Kingdom and Canada.
Karanik, for his part, said authorities in the Grodno region were preparing in advance for possible actions by Western countries.
“Compensatory measures developed to this day: the European market is not the main one. Hopefully we can prevent it [sulėtėti regiono ekonomikai] “Even if there is a slight slowdown in individual companies, we will compensate for it at the expense of other indicators,” said the governor of the area.
“We must show those villains on the other side of the border that their sanctions are their powerlessness. That is what we must prove and we will,” Lukashenko said.
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