New Sanctions on Belarus announced
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On the 9th August, the UK Government introduced further trade, aviation and financial sanctions on Belarus. This includes:
- aviation measures to prevent Belarusian air carriers from overflying or landing in the UK and a prohibition on the provision of technical assistance to President Lukashenko’s fleet of luxury aircraft
- trade measures on potash, petroleum products, interception and monitoring goods and technology, goods used in cigarette manufacturing, and dual-use goods and technology to reduce the amount of revenue flowing to the Lukashenko regime and to limit its access to items that could enable the internal repression of the Belarusian population
- financial measures prohibiting purchases of transferable securities and money-market instruments issued by the Belarusian state, as well as those issued by state-owned banks, and the provision of loans
The sanctions are in response to President Lukashenko’s “undermining of democracy and violation of human rights” and come a year on from fraudulent elections in Belarus.