US and Canada to impose new sanctions against Belarus US

The United States will impose new sanctions against Belarus, the AFP news agency reports, citing a White House representative. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the US Treasury will officially announce the restrictions on August 9, they will be timed to coincide with the anniversary of the presidential elections in the republic.

The measures will be introduced in connection with "an attack on democratic aspirations and human rights, transnational repression and corruption." They will affect "key institutions and supporters" of President ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO, the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Belarus, Belarusian companies, including the potash fertilizer producer Belaruskali, businessmen, as well as one of the private banks.

Sanctions against the NOC will be introduced against the backdrop of the situation around the Belarusian athlete-athlete Kristina Timanovskaya, which developed at the Olympics in Tokyo, which Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called it "transnational repression" from Minsk.

CANADA also announced sanctions against Belarus. “The new measures impose restrictions on key sectors of the Belarusian economy and minimize the access of Belarusian state actors to international finance,” the Canadian government said in a statement on its website. They specified that the restrictions would affect debt financing, insurance, oil products and potash fertilizers.