Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn says he hopes for an international trial against Alyaksandr Lukashenka, RIA Novosti reports.
“The European Union has shown what it can do if it wants to. The opposite would be a disaster. Of course, we make it clear that Stalinism and state terrorism have no place in the 21st century,” said Jean Asselborn during the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
According to him, the new EU sanctions against Belarus will be “painful, and hopefully so painful as to bring the regime to its knees.”
“My wish is – we can’t decide that – for Lukashenka to one day answer to the International Court of Justice for the suffering he has caused the people,” Aselborn added.
On June 21, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union approved the 4th package of individual sanctions against Belarus. The EU has frozen assets and introduced a visa ban against 78 Belarusian officials and eight companies.
On June 21, foreign ministers of the EU also agreed on sectoral sanctions. They will affect the oil and potash industry, as well as the banking sector. They are to be approved at a European Council meeting on June 24-25 and officially approved in a few days.
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