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The United States plans to impose new sanctions against Belarus on August 9 amid continuing repression by Alexander Lukashenko, informs CNN citing a congressional source. A year ago, on this day, presidential elections were held in Belarus, after which mass protests began in the country.
CNN has no information on what sanctions Washington is preparing, but the report notes that the leader of the Belarusian opposition, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who recently visited the United States, handed the Joe Biden administration a specific list of restrictions on the Lukashenka administration that she considers necessary.
On July 28, US President Biden met with Tikhanovskaya. Prior to that, she met with the president’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan and State Department officials. Advisor to Tikhanovskaya Franak Vyachorka said that State Department officials indicated their readiness to expand sanctions against the Belarusian industries of oil products and potash fertilizers.
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