Norway

On 15 November 2021, the Council of the European Union adopted a decision amending the listing criteria used to decide on restrictive measures, in view of the unpresedented crisis at the EU border with Belarus, so as ‘to be able to respond to the instrumentalisation of human beings carried out by the Belarus regime for political purposes’.

The Belarusian leader spoke on the phone with the CEO of the Norwegian chemical company Yara

They handed in a petition to the office

The decision will be made by December

Norway aligned with the EU’s new sectoral sanctions against Belarus as a response to the major human rights violations being committed by the country’s authorities, the country’s foreign minister Ine Eriksen Søreide said on July 12.

It is referred to as one of the main sources of funding for the riot police

The freshly-fired workers may be reinstated and the disciplinary penalties will be lifted, the directorship of Belaruskali, one the country’s leading manufacturers, said on its official website on Thursday.

Yara calls for an end to the repression

“Baltic Pipe will connect the gas networks of Norway, Denmark and Poland.

In light of signing of Belarus-EU agreements on visa facilitation and readmission, Minsk and Oslo are set to draft proper documents, the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry reports.

The first batch of Norwegian oil arrived at Belarus’ Naftan oil refinery in Navapolatsk on January, 26.

Lithuania can offer Belarus an alternative to oil and gas imports from Russia, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said, BNS reports.

Belarusian Oil Company (BOC) has bought a batch of Norwegian oil from Johan Sverdrup with delivery to the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda, reports the Reuters agency.