U.S. Extends Sanctions against Belarus

U.S. President Barack Obama extended sanctions against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and other high-ranking Belarus officials on the grounds that their anti-democratic actions constitute an “extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.” A Belarus Foreign Ministry spokesman responded to the sanctions by stating that the U.S. should “depart from stereotypes of confrontational thinking.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/notice-president-continuation-national-emergency-with-respect-belarus
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