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Updated May 26, 2021 at 6:14 PM ET A growing number of European countries are blocking access to Belarusian airlines. The response comes after Belarus intercepted a commercial flight and removed and arrested Roman Protasevich, an opposition journalist who was on board. Speaking to NPR s Here & Now on Wednesday, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Grabrielius Landsbergis, whose country borders Belarus, expressed his support of the sanctions. I think this is one of the ways to show that these lack of action of piracy or as we call it, state-sponsored terrorism has a price tag, he said. That it s absolutely not okay to hijack a plane, kidnap more than hundreds of passengers on it, keep them under lock and key in the airport.

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