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The European Union extended arms embargo on Monday against Belarus and individual sanctions against four people for one year.

 “On 27 February 2017, the Council decided to prolong the restrictive measures against Belarus for one year, until 28 February 2018. These measures include an arms embargo and an asset freeze and a travel ban against four people listed in connection with the unresolved disappearances of two opposition politicians, one businessman and one journalist in 1999 and in 2000,” EU Council reported.

Former Belarusian interior ministers Vladimir Naumov and Yuri Sivakov, former chief of the Presidential Administration, Viktor Sheiman and also former special forces veteran Colonel Dmitri Pavlichenko are under EU sanctions.

The Council also introduced an exemption to the restrictive measures to allow export of biathlon equipment to Belarus, which will remain subject to prior authorisation by national competent authorities on a case by case basis.

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