EU threatens to expand Belarus travel ban list

EUObserver reported on 19.6.12 that the European Union had said it does not rule out adding more people to its Belarus sanctions list so long as repression continued.

Minsk in April 2012 freed two prominent political prisoners - presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov and his aide Dmitry Bondarenko - but Gunnar Wiegand, a senior official in the European External Action Service (EEAS) told press in Brussels on 18 June 2012 that it was not enough to mend relations.

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Telegraf, 19.6.12: EU May Expand Sanctions against Belarus http://telegraf.by/en/2012/06/evrosoyuz-mojet-rasshirit-sankcii-protiv-belarusi

B92, 11.6.12: Serbia joins EU-imposed sanctions against Belarus http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2012&mm=06&dd=11&nav_id=80703

Charter 97, 1.6.12: EU sanctions don’t bother Belarusian oligarchs? http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/6/1/53193/

ESO: Background information: Lukashenko trying to outwit EU and Russia http://www.europeansources.info/record/lukashenko-trying-to-outwit-eu-and-russia/

Reuters, 31.6.12: Putin attacks EU sanctions on Belarus visit http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/31/us-russia-putin-belarus-idUSBRE84U1J220120531

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