EU to Sanction Belarus, Syrian Airlines Over Migrant Crisis
- Belavia, Cham among 11 entities to be hit with sanctions
- The EU accuses Belarus of manufacturing a migrant crisis
Migrants wait in an area allocated by the Belarusian government at the Belarusian-Polish border in Grodno, Belarus on Dec. 1.
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Belarusian national carrier Belavia and Syria’s Cham Wings Airlines are among entities the European Union is planning to sanction over a migrant crisis that the bloc blames on Minsk.
EU member states are expected to approve sanctions on 17 individuals and 11 entities this week, according to two people familiar with the measures, who asked not to be identified because the decision isn’t yet public. Nitrogen fertilizer producer Grodno Azot and oil producer Belarusneft, as well as Belarusian border officials and judges, are also on the list, one of the people said.