US President Joe Biden has officially announced that he has continued the state of emergency due to the actions and policies of the regime of the Republic of Belarus, which also includes the continuation of sanctions against the authorities of this country.
Source: The White House
“I expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13405, finding that the Belarusian regime’s harmful activities and long-standing abuses aimed at suppressing democracy and the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Belarus — including illicit and oppressive activities stemming from August 9, 2020, fraudulent Belarusian presidential election and its aftermath, such as the elimination of political opposition and civil society organizations and the regime’s disruption and endangering of international civil air travel — constituted an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
Uaposition memo: The state of emergency was introduced in 2006 and then expanded in 2021. Sanctions were imposed after the “elections” of the self-proclaimed Belarusian President in 2020.
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