The Prime Minister of Belarus, Roman Golovchenko, has announced that his government has prepared a response to Western sanctions. He warned that companies from countries unfriendly to Belarus could lose access to the Belarusian market. Belarus is also ready to give up Western goods and technologies, which could be replaced by technologies created in China and Russia.
Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko on Belarus’s response to sanctionsUldis Ķezberis
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“We still hope that the hot heads will cool down and, among other things, evaluate their business interests in Belarus. If it harms our companies and businesses, then we have no right to harm Western companies? We have every right to compensate for this loss. A huge number of foreign companies work in the Republic of Belarus. There are a lot of companies from countries that have a very unfriendly policy towards Belarus – they are Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and unfortunately also Ukraine since recently, “Golovchenko told Belarus 1 in an interview.
CONTEXT:
May 23 Belarus forced to land in Minsk Ryanair ‘s 126 – passenger flight from Athens to Vilnius. Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of Belarus, has personally ordered the interception of the plane.
The purpose of the operation was to detain one of the passengers: a member of the staff of the Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlan Cihanouska, one of the founders of the opposition media “Nexta” Roman Protasevich. The Lukashenko regime accuses him of organizing riots, for which he faces 15 years in prison.
The actions of the Belarussian regime have been condemned by both the Belarusian opposition and Western officials, who have described as state-sponsored air piracy, hijacking of a passenger plane and gross violation of international civil aviation rules.
European Union (EU) leaders after the event agreed to extend sanctions against Belarusian officials, as well as companies that financially support the Minsk regime. Belarusian airlines are banned from using EU airspace and landing at EU airports. European airlines, on the other hand, are advised not to use Belarusian airspace.
4 June Ambassadors of the Member States of the European Union agreed to close European Union airspace to Belarusian air carriers.
On June 5 Kazakhstan rejected Russia’s offer to jointly respond to Western sanctions against Moscow and Belarus, an ally of the two countries.
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