Sanctions restrictions are currently imposed by the US, the EU, the UK, Canada, Switzerland and Ukraine to mount international pressure against the current oppressive regime in Belarus. These have become subject to phased tightening since the re-election of Belarus’ president, Alexander Lukashenko ...
UK government guidance on the UK's current sanctions regime relating to Belarus. US – Belarus sanctions US Department of the Treasury Information on the sanctions imposed against Belarus by the US Government, including existing measures imposed prior to February 2022. Disclaimer ICAEW accepts no ...
The British Government’s actions, broadly speaking, brought the UK in line with the sanctions imposed by the European Union in June, implementing a package of trade, financial, and aviation sanctions targeting the Belarusian regime. Authors:Leigh T. HanssonAlexander BrandtRay-Shio HoWilliam YoungOz...
"We will apply all the tools at our disposal to hold Lukashenko and his regime to account." Mr Raab also told the Commons the UK will double the amount of financial support given to human rights groups, independent media organisations and community groups, totalling an extra £1.5 million ...
Foreign SecretaryDominic Raabsaid: "These sanctions demonstrate that the UK will not accept Lukashenko's actions since the fraudulent election. "The Lukashenko regime continues to crush democracy and violate human rights in Belarus. "The products of Lukashenko's state-owned indus...
The UK, US and Canada today all announced new sanctions on Belarus, on the anniversary of a disputed presidential election that sparked a year of domestic political turmoil and international backlash.
(BRUSSELS)– EU leaders at a summit Friday agreed to impose sanctions on the Belarus regime, calling for an end to violence and repression, and giving support to new free and fair elections without external interference. At the two-day meeting, the European Council condemned the Belarusian autho...
Macron hoped that sanctions against Belarus officials will be adopted at summit of European Union later this week, according to Tsikhanouskaya’s advisor, Franak Vyachorko. The European Union said last week it does not recognize Lukashenko as president of Belarus because of large-scale pr...
The European Union has threatened to extend sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko's regime after a Minsk court sentenced Andrei Sannikov - the candidate in the disputed December 2010 presidential elections - to five years in prison. Four other defendants were handed sentences of up to three-an...
The UK, US and Canada last week simultaneously imposed a fresh wave of sanctions on Belarus to hurt Lukashenko’s regime on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of an election that Western countries consider to have been rigged.