Belarus Calls Coordinated Western Sanctions ‘Economic War,’ Vows to Retaliate By James Carstensen | June 22, 2021 | 6:33pm EDT
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. (Photo by Dmitry Astakhov/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The Lukashenko regime in Belarus said on Tuesday a raft of coordinated sanctions announced by the European Union, United States, Britain, and Canada “borders on the declaration of an economic war.”
“The European Union is deliberately unleashing a spiral of sanctions, from which it is becoming increasingly difficult for all sides to get out,” the Belarusian foreign ministry said in a statement.
“The retaliatory measures that the E.U. forces us to take will just as negatively impact cooperation and, ultimately, the interests of the citizens and companies of Western countries that have taken unfriendly steps towards our state,” it said, without elaborating.
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