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IANS | 11 Jun, 2021
Following the May 23 forced landing of a Ryanair plane
travelling between two EU capitals and the arrest of blogger Roman
Protasevich in Belarus, the European Parliament has called for further
sanctions on the hardline regime in Minsk.
Punitive measures
should be taken against the crude oil-processing industry, the
production of petroleum products, and the potash, steel and
wood-processing industries, it said in a resolution adopted on Thursday.
In addition, cooperation with state-owned Belarusian banks should be stopped, reports dpa news agency.
Consideration should also be given to temporarily excluding Belarus from the Swift payment system.
Josep
Borrell, the EU's foreign affairs commissioner, said during Tuesday's
plenary debate that he hoped the bloc's member states would adopt
further punitive measures on Belarus at the next summit. For the first
time, targeted economic sanctions had been agreed upon.
Belarusian
authorities forced the Ryanair passenger plane on its way from Athens
to Vilnius to make a stopover in Minsk and arrested the government
critic Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega on board.
The
EU then reimposed sanctions on the former Soviet republic. Since last
Saturday, Belarusian airlines are no longer allowed to fly into the
bloc's airspace.
Due to the ongoing repression of the democracy
movement in Belarus, the EU had already adopted several packages of
sanctions targeting President Alexander Lukashenko's supporters last
year.
Russia's possible role in the case should be investigated and, if necessary, sanctions imposed on those responsible, they said.
MEPs
also backed a call by Belarusian opposition activist Svetlana
Tikhanovskaya for the establishment of an international criminal court
to hold the leadership in Minsk accountable.
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