He stated this after talks with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyarto.
“If it doesn’t come to the introduction of such sanctions (we are talking about sanctions aimed at certain officials of the Belarusian state), then the countries of our region are considering (I’m talking about Belarus’s neighbors, members of the EU) the introduction of national sanctions,” Rau quotes the RAR agency.
At the same time, he expressed the hope that EU sanctions will still be introduced.
On September 21, the foreign ministers of the European Union member states in Brussels could not agree on the introduction of sanctions against Belarusian officials for using violence during the protests after the presidential elections in the republic.