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Maas threatens Lukashenko with a spiral of sanctions
– NOTE: YOU WILL RECEIVE THIS POST WITHOUT ADDITIONAL SPEAKER TEXT: O-TON FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER HEIKO MAAS (SPD): “Now the sanctions have to be implemented quickly, we are working intensively on that; the Commission and all those involved, including in the member states. I hope that this succeeds in the next few days. It is extremely important that there was this clear reaction and that it is now being implemented and that this is done jointly on a European basis. but which companies can also be sanctioned in Belarus. We will continue to look at what consequences this has in Belarus, whether Lukashenko will give in. And if that is not the case, one must assume that this is just the beginning of a process will be a big and long spiral of sanctions, because we find what Lukashenko has done so unacceptable that the European Union not only does not say nothing about it but that in the coming weeks she will have to deal very specifically with how we can further increase the pressure on Belarus and Lukashenko. “
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At the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Portugal, Maas once again called for consequences for the Belarusian president. Belarus had diverted a Ryanair plane to Minsk on Sunday and arrested an opposition member.
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