America’s obsession with sanctions; Adding the names of 100 Belarusian officials to the list of visa sanctions
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Tuesday local time by issuing a statement and repeating the allegations about the Belarusian elections and calling them fake, that he will issue visa restrictions for 100 government officials of this country.
The United States claims to have carried out this hostile act under the pretext of weakening democratic institutions and violating human rights.
The US Secretary of State claimed that Washington stands by the people of Belarus as they strive to achieve a democratic future.
Those sanctioned are people from the President’s Office, the National Security Committee (KGB), the Ministry of Interior, the Central Election Commission, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Central Office of the Investigative Committee of Belarus.
In this statement it is claimed: the people who are included in these sanctions, in torture, violent arrest of peaceful protesters; raiding the homes and offices of journalists, members of the opposition and activists; forced confessions; election fraud; Issuing politically motivated sentences for political prisoners; expelling students for participating in peaceful demonstrations; The adoption of laws affecting fundamental freedoms and acts of repression abroad have been involved.
The US Secretary of State has claimed: Since the fraudulent elections of 2020, the US State Department has put 297 people on the visa restriction list due to the weakening of democracy in Belarus. Among the officials who have been newly included in this list are the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Mikalai Karpianko and Dzmitry Balaba, the commander of the special force of the Minsk City Police, who have been included in the US visa restrictions due to gross violations of human rights and arbitrary detention of peaceful protesters. .
Following the August 2020 elections in Belarus, the United States and the West have sanctioned this country under the pretext of suppressing the protests to the elections by the President of this country, Alexander Lukashenko.
With the start of the war in Ukraine, the United States and the European Union have sanctioned Russia’s ally Belarus under the pretext of this war.
On February 21, 2022 (March 2, 1400), Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticizing the West’s indifference to Moscow’s security concerns, recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in the Donbas region. On February 23 (March 4) and just one day before the start of the war in Ukraine, the Council of the European Union approved the first package of sanctions against Russia in response to this action.
On Thursday, February 24 (March 5, 1400), Putin also launched military operations against Ukraine, which he called “special operations”, thus turning the tense Moscow-Kiev relationship into a military confrontation.