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EU ambassadors agreed Wednesday further economic sanctions on Belarus over its brutal crackdown on opposition protesters, targeting 29 individuals and seven firms or organisations, diplomats said.
The measures, to be formalised with the publication of the list on Thursday, will be the third round of sanctions the European bloc has imposed on the regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
Lukashenko, his son, and more than 50 Belarus officials are already under EU sanctions.
Sources in the European Council and an EU diplomat told AFP that a meeting of ambassadors from the EU s 27 member states agreed on the latest list of individuals and entities to be sanctioned.
Belarus: Tsikhanouskaya accepts Sakharov Prize in Brussels
Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has been holding talks in Brussels with senior EU officials. Her speech to MEPs comes as the bloc slapped new sanctions of the country s leader, Alexander Lukashenko.
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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya addresses European Parliament
Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Wednesday vowed the protest movement against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko would prevail despite a brutal crackdown by authorities, as she received the EU s top rights prize.
Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is congratulated by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after receiving the Sakharov Prize We are bound to win and we will win, the exiled former presidential candidate said in Brussels as she received the Sakharov Prize on behalf of the opposition movement.