{"id":101858,"date":"2024-08-23T19:40:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/101858\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"five-eu-candidates-join-latest-package-of-sanctions-against-minsk","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/101858\/","title":{"rendered":"Five EU candidates join latest package of sanctions against Minsk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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August 23, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Ukraine and Montenegro have joined a package of sanctions against Belarus, adopted by the European Union on July 26, the EU said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sanctions against 28 Belarusian security officials, state media workers, courts and correctional institutions came into force on August 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The five countries have applied for EU membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four other candidate countries, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia and Turkey, have not joined the sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accession talks with Georgia and Turkey are frozen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement said that EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway too have joined the package. The European Free Trade Association also includes Switzerland, which has recently adopted its own sanctions against a number of Belarusian individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the statement, the countries that have supported the sanctions will follow the EU Council’s decision. “The European Union takes note of this commitment and welcomes it,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A similar decision by the eight aforementioned countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, North Macedonia, Ukraine and Montenegro) to join then-new EU personal sanctions against Belarusians was announced a year ago, on August 22, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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