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US Eases Sanctions on Belarus, Lifts Measures Against Belavia Airline and Lukashenko
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The US Department of the Treasury has eased certain sanctions on Belarus, lifting restrictions on the country’s national airline and allowing operations related to aircraft linked to the country’s leader Alexander Lukashenko, Reuters reported on November 4, citing the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
According to Reuters, OFAC officially removed sanctions on Belavia and on an aircraft operated by the company that had previously been identified as used by Belarusian officials and members of Lukashenko’s family.
The Treasury Department also issued a general license permitting specific transactions involving three previously sanctioned aircraft associated with Lukashenko or the state-linked company Slavkali, which is tied to his government.
Reuters noted that the aircraft covered by the license include a Boeing 737 owned by the Belarusian government and used as a presidential plane, another jet from the presidential fleet, and a luxury helicopter belonging to Slavkali that was reportedly used to transport Lukashenko between his countryside residence and Minsk.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has sought to reestablish contact with Minsk a shift underscored by the release of several Belarusian political prisoners, Reuters added.
Earlier, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko warned that deploying Tomahawk missiles in Ukraine would not resolve the war, but rather “escalate it to the brink of nuclear war.”
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