MINSK, 16 December (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is hosting a meeting to discuss Belarus' response to sanctions, BelTA has learned.
The meeting is attended by members of the government, heads of government agencies and organizations, governors, company chiefs.
“I have invited you to discuss the state of the economy. At the end of the year Belarus faced unprecedented pressure, and the sanctions are mostly likely to be piling up. We should build a clear understanding of how to act, avoid inappropriate steps, let alone mistakes, in order to prevent certain consequences of these sanctions,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.
The president added that all these sanctions are nothing new. There are many countries in the world that are subjected to unjustified and discriminatory actions all the time. The same policy, for example, is being pursued against Russia.
“Unfortunately, this has become a new normal; everyone disregards the violation of international law. It seems that common sense abandoned those who make such decisions,” the head of state said.
A reminder, on 1 January 2022 Belarus will enact a food embargo against a broad range of goods made in the countries, which pursue a discriminative policy and take unfriendly actions against Belarus. In January-October 2021 alone Belarus imported over $530 million worth of food products from such countries. The products that constitute the core of this import will be embargoed starting next year.
The prohibition will apply to a number of imports from the European Union and its member states, from the United States of America, Canada, Norway, Albania, Iceland, North Macedonia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Montenegro, and Switzerland.
