EU Takes Step Toward Imposing Fresh Sanctions on Belarus
- Foreign ministers agree on preparations but no formal decision
- Bloc says it doesn’t accept the Belarus election results
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The European Union signaled it’s ready to impose sanctions on Belarus over the regime’s violent crackdown of protesters after Sunday’s presidential election, which the bloc said was fraudulent.
In an emergency conference call on Friday, the EU’s 27 foreign ministers agreed to ask the bloc to start drawing up a list of officials linked to President Alexander Lukashenko who could be sanctioned. The process could take as short as a matter of days.