Lithuania mulls taking over sanctioned Belarusian spa as workers stage protest 12 Lithuania mulls taking over sanctioned Belarusian spa as workers stage protest / D. Umbrasas/LRT Lithuania's Foreign Ministry plans to launch negotiations with Minsk on the possible takeover of Belorus, a sanctioned Belarusian spa in the Lithuanian town of Druskininkai. "Two committees in the Lithuanian Seimas made a decision [...] to turn to the Belarusian government with a proposal to buy this sanatorium out," Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told reporters on Thursday, adding that the ministry will "implement this proposal". Belorus' accounts were frozen by Swedbank in December last year shortly after the EU imposed sanctions against the Main Economic Office (GHU) of the Belarusian president's administration, as it is led by Viktor Sheiman who is on the EU sanction list. Minsk acquired the spa under the Lithuanian–Belarusian intergovernmental agreement of February 6, 1995.