MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarus on Monday recalled its permanent representative to the European Union for consultations after Brussels imposed economic sanctions in response to Belarus authorities forcing a Ryanair passenger flight to land in Minsk.
The Belarusian foreign ministry suggested the EU representative in Minsk also leave for consultations and said those responsible for the sanctions, which target Belarus’s main export industries and access to finance, would be banned from entering Belarus.
(Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy and Polina Ivanova; Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
