{"id":47183,"date":"2023-06-08T16:41:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/london-expands-sanctions-against-lukasenka-regime\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"london-expands-sanctions-against-lukasenka-regime","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47183\/","title":{"rendered":"London expands sanctions against \u0141uka\u0161enka regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>June 8, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Rishi Sunak\u2019s government has introduced a new package of sanctions against the regime of Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka, the UK foreign office has said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p> The new sanctions legislation will allow London to restrict Belarusian exports, fight Russian attempts to circumvent existing sanctions&nbsp;and counter \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s propaganda.<\/p>\n<p> In particular, the government is banning imports of gold, cement and wood to the UK from Belarus, as well as exports to this country of goods and technology that can be used to produce chemical and biological weapons.<\/p>\n<p> Minsk\u2019s access to British financial markets has been further restricted<\/p>\n<p> The package builds on previous sanctions on \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s regime, such as a ban on the import and export of goods worth about \u00a360 million.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis new package ratchets up the economic pressure on \u0141uka\u0161enka and his regime which actively facilitates the Russian war effort and ignores Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity,\u201d&nbsp;said Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government also called on Minsk to immediately release more than 1,400 political prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 8, BPN. Rishi Sunak\u2019s government has introduced a new package of sanctions against the regime of Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka, the UK foreign office has said in a news release. The new sanctions legislation will allow London to restrict Belarusian exports, fight Russian attempts to circumvent existing sanctions&nbsp;and counter \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s propaganda. In particular, the government is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[21,16],"class_list":["post-47183","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-economy","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>London expands sanctions against \u0141uka\u0161enka regime | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 8, BPN. 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