Lithuania introduced sanctions against Belarusian children with disabilities
Lithuanian authorities seized the accounts of the Belarus sanatorium in the city
Druskininkai, owned by the Administration of the President of Belarus. They explain this by the fact that the sanatorium allegedly fell under EU sanctions against Belarus.
This was reported by the publication Respublika, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We specifically visited the EU page, which lists companies subject to sanctions. There is not a word about the sanatorium in Druskininkai. Nobody warned us in advance, we did not receive any letters that the accounts were frozen, we found out only after we tried to make transfers,” said the director of the sanatorium, Ilya Epifanov.
Press Secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Anatoly Glaz believes that the situation around “Belarus” demonstrates “the flawed decisions taken by the EU” and the hypocrisy of the Lithuanian authorities.
“The Lithuanian side, completely thoughtlessly or, on the contrary, consciously, is brewing a problem by deliberately leaving its citizens without wages during the New Year holidays, and then actively declares, I emphasize - for now it is only stating - about heroic efforts to resolve the issue. In pursuit of political dividends, our “well-wishers” continue to intentionally cause direct and obvious harm to ordinary Belarusians, for whose well-being they supposedly stand up,” Glaza is quoted as saying by the official website of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.
He recalled that in Belarus more than 13 thousand people undergo rehabilitation annually, including more than 6,5 thousand children and disabled children.
“The Lithuanian side, together with the initiators of the sanctions package, will be able to answer to each of them and provide compensation?” Glaz said.
According to him, 400 employees of the sanatorium, 90% of whom are Lithuanian citizens, fell under Lithuania’s sanctions.
“The deep disappointment from the failed pseudo-democratic blitzkrieg, in our opinion, is turning among our Western colleagues into impotent anger and a desire to punish both our own and others more strongly,” noted a representative of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.
The EU has already adopted three packages of sanctions against Belarus. The first, which was adopted by the EU on October 2, included 40 Belarusian officials - security officials (representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB) and members of the Central Election Commission, in respect of whom personal restrictions were introduced. The second package of sanctions was adopted on November 6: the European Union introduced restrictions against Alexander Lukashenko and 14 high-ranking officials. On December 17, the European Union adopted a third package of sanctions against 29 people and seven legal entities.
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