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“The Federal Council today announced new economic sanctions against Belarus. These include controls and restrictions on the trade of certain goods in the financial sector,” the Swiss government said in a statement on its website.
It should be noted that the new measures entered into force on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. local time (7 pm Lithuanian time).
The report says the new economic sanctions package has been shaped by “similar decisions made by the European Union in June.” Among other things, Switzerland will control the supply to Belarus of goods “that can be used for surveillance or interception of telephone and Internet communications”.
In addition, “trade in dual-use products, technology, various petroleum products and potassium chloride, as well as products for the manufacture of tobacco products, has been restricted,” according to the report.
In its action on the financial sector, the Federal Council imposed restrictions on “the supply and marketing of financial instruments, as well as the supply of loans and insurance and reinsurance services to the Government of Belarus and other state institutions and bodies.”
Belaeronavigacija, a Belarusian airspace control company, has also been added to the Swiss sanctions list.
The report said Switzerland was “deeply concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in Belarus and the lack of dialogue between the government and civil society.” Bern once again called on Minsk to “abide by its international human rights obligations.”
In June, the United States, the European Union, Great Britain and Canada jointly announced new sanctions against Belarus for the forced landing of a Ryanair passenger liner from Athens to Vilnius in Minsk due to a threat to the plane’s safety, and the blogger of the opposition Raman Pratasevic. and his friend., The arrest of Sofia Sapega, a Russian citizen studying in Vilnius.
The new sanctions package includes measures that restrict Belarus’s ability to export potassium fertilizers, petroleum products, and tobacco products.
In addition, Minsk’s access to EU capital markets will be restricted and the provision of insurance or reinsurance services to the Belarusian government and state institutions will be prohibited.
Currently, EU sanctions against Belarus are imposed on 166 natural persons and 15 legal persons.
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