Ultimatum to foreign businessmen

• 17.03.2012, 19:28

The Belarusian dictator blackmails foreign businessmen and demands cancelation of the economic sanctions.

Charter97.org has learnt that several days ago a group of foreign businessmen who own assets in Belarus had been invited to Lukashenka’s administration and presented with an ultimatum: either the businessmen, with help of their lobbyists block the individual economic sanctions that are to be introduced against the “purses” of the Belarusian dictatorship, or they themselves will endure problems. According to our source, Lukashenka himself attended the meeting.

The businessmen must have taken the threats seriously. Right after the meeting, politicians of different level started to ring bells. On 14 March five members of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Lithuanian Seim made a statement critiquing the economic sanctions against Belarus. Deputies Yustinas Karosas, Vitsianis Andriukaitis, Dailis Barakavskas, Mikhail Matskevich and Adnrius Shedzhus believe that “all European Union countries should only use a political tool against the demonstrations of authoritarianism in Belarus.”

Next to respond was the Deputy Group on cooperation with the Belarusian “parliament” from the Latvian Seim. The politicians doubt that the economic sanctions against Belarus may be an effective way to resolve the political tension in the country. This is said in the statement addressed to Prime-Minister Valdis Dombrovskis and Foreign Minister Edgar Rinkevich and signed by 22 Latvian deputies.

We only have to hope that the governments of other neighbor-countries realize what happened with the Slovenian government defending oligarch Chyzh, and what reputation loss Slovenia occurred protecting the interests of Europe’s last dictator.