EU Emergency Summit approves sanctions on Belarus to come into force near August 20 5:42
EU-European Union convenes urgent summit meeting to approve sanctions on Belarus and provides financial support to support citizens and the freedom of the press over the turmoil of the former Soviet Union after the presidential election. Did.
In Belarus, protest demonstrations and strikes for retiring continue despite President Lukashenko's six elections in the presidential election this month.
On the 19th, the EU held an emergency summit online to discuss the response, saying that the authorities violated the demonstrators and the election itself was not fair.
As a result, the leaders of the countries agreed that transparent investigation was necessary because there was no recognition of violence against citizens or election results, and approved sanctions against officials agreed at the Foreign Minister level, We agreed to activate it soon.
Furthermore, the leaders of the countries are ready to support the democratic change of government and provide military support as necessary, saying that "all the powers including the third country must support such a process." It restrained Russia that there was.
In addition, Chairman Von De Alien, in support of the media to protect the freedom of the press in Belarus and the medical system to deal with the new coronavirus, is worth 53 million euros, or about 6.7 billion yen in Japanese yen. Clarified the idea of contributing the yen.