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Chancellor Linas Linkevičius, who attended the meeting in Brussels, says this is a historic decision.
“The emergence of an EU sanctions regime for human rights violations is historically important. The EU is sending a strong message to human rights violators around the world that EU sanctions threaten serious sanctions for human rights violations, their promotion or funding, “Linkevičius said in a ministry statement.
According to him, corruption is also one of the crimes for which EU sanctions should be sought in the future.
According to the ministry, the European Magnicki Law will give the EU more flexibility to apply specific restrictive measures to natural or legal persons responsible for serious human rights violations in third countries, as well as to entities, organizations, including state and non-state actors.
“The overall EU human rights sanctions regime will consist of specific restrictive measures such as asset freezes and bans on entering EU territory,” the report said.
According to the ministry, the EU’s global human sanctions regime will complement the EU’s geographic sanctions regimes, some of which already provide for sanctions for human rights violations, such as the regimes of measures against Syria, Belarus and Venezuela.
The ministry says that the sanctions regime will apply in cases of genocide, crimes against humanity, serious human rights violations: torture, slavery, extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, arbitrary arrests or detentions.
Sanctions will also be available to combat other human rights violations, such as human trafficking, sexual and gender-based violence, violations of freedom of assembly and association, violations of freedom of expression, religion and belief, in The extent to which they are widespread, systematic or otherwise raises serious concerns regarding the objectives of the EU’s common foreign and security policy.
Under the new comprehensive EU human rights sanctions regime, Community members or the EU High Representative will be able to propose restrictive measures against specific individuals responsible for human rights violations in third countries. The decision to include certain people on the sanctions lists will be taken by the Council of the EU, unanimously by the Member States.
The Council Decision establishing a comprehensive EU sanctions regime on human rights is valid for three years, and the lists of sanctioned persons will be reviewed and re-approved every 12 months.
Some countries have already adopted national Magnickis laws: Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and the United Kingdom.
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