{"id":45658,"date":"2023-02-09T14:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T11:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/opposition-leader-urges-eu-to-close-loopholes-for-lukasenkas-regime\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"opposition-leader-urges-eu-to-close-loopholes-for-lukasenkas-regime","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45658\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition leader urges EU to close loopholes for \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>February 9, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>New European Union&#8217;s sanctions against Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s regime, including on potash, &#8220;must be tougher and close loopholes instead of creating new ones,&#8221; said Belarusian opposition leader Sviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &#8220;Potash is a critical source of funds for the regime to fuel repression, terror and war,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;Stay consistent and don\u2019t ease pressure on the dictator.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A day earlier, Pavie\u0142 \u0141atu\u0161ka of the opposition&#8217;s transition cabinet said that the European Union considered lifting personal sanctions against Ivan Ha\u0142avaty, CEO of potash giant Bie\u0142aruskali, to pave the way for lifting sectoral sanctions against the entire potash industry later.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In 2021, the European Union, United States, UK and Canada imposed sanctions on Bie\u0142aruskali. In February 2022, Lithuania halted the transit of Belarusian potash fertilizers via Klaip\u0117da.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Over the past few years, democratic countries have imposed sanctions on Belarus over human rights abuses and the country\u2019s complicity in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 9, BPN. New European Union&#8217;s sanctions against Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s regime, including on potash, &#8220;must be tougher and close loopholes instead of creating new ones,&#8221; said Belarusian opposition leader Sviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja. &#8220;Potash is a critical source of funds for the regime to fuel repression, terror and war,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;Stay consistent and don\u2019t ease pressure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45658","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Opposition leader urges EU to close loopholes for \u0141uka\u0161enka&#039;s regime | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 9, BPN. 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