Belarus not in agenda of Council of EU's session today
The Foreign Ministers of the EU will discuss the situations in Syria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and Bosnia and Herzehovina.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the EU
states will meet in Luxembourg on June 25. Belarus is not in the agenda of the
session.
Let
us remind you, on June 19, Gunnar
Wiegand, of the
EU's European External Action Service, stated there would be further expansion
of the European Union's "black list", at the hearings on Belarus in
the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. According to him, the
sanctions will be expanded until the political prisoners are released.
Gunnar Wiegand: "We
see signals but we don't see releases... The release of Sannikau and Bandarenka
did not amend the EU's strategy. The ball is not at the EU's side, as someone
in Minsk says. It remains at Minsk's side of the field. The EU is not going to
make a trade on the political prisoners".
It
looks like the Council of the EU does not take another decision on Belarus,
hoping for the release of political prisoners under the amnesty dedicated to
the Independence Day.
