WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order that imposes new steps aimed at punishing Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko as the United States stepping against his government in coordinated action with Britain and Canada.
In the commemoration of President Lukashenko’s election was accused of winning, the United States will also issue its biggest round sanctions to the present in individuals and Belarusian entities, targeting the country’s economy and the Belarus National Olympic Committee, a White House official said.
The US Treasury Department will interfere with the Black Belaruscali OAO list, which officials are said to be one of Belarus’s largest state-owned companies and one of the largest potash producers in the world, which is used in fertilizer and is a producer of the main foreign currency.
The Belarusian Olympic Committee will also be beaten with sanctions on Monday’s action, the official said, on charges, he facilitated money laundering, saving sanctions, and managing visa prohibitions.
The action came after the Sprinter Belarus Krystina Tsimanouskaya refused to ride to the flight home during the Olympics after he was taken to the airport with his wishes.
Since then he is looking for refugee status in Poland.
The Western government has tried to increase their pressure on Lukashenko, which was accused of elections in August 2020 and cracked down against the opposition to extend its power now for 27 years.
Lukashenko denied pouring out sounds.
Tens of thousands of people joined street protests in 2020 – Lukashenko’s biggest challenge since he became president in 1994.
He answered with a hard action where many opponents had been arrested or went to exile.
They deny coup planning.
The UK announces new sanctions on Monday, targeting export of oil and pot products.
Lukashenko said England would be “knocked out” in his steps and that he was ready to speak west instead of a sanction war.
Canada also imposes new sanctions on Belarus to protest what is called “gross violations and systematic human rights” under Lukashenko.