BRUSSELS, April 8 (RIA Novosti) - The European Union has proposed banning 31 Belarusian officials from entering its territory, including President Alexander Lukashenko, a diplomatic source in Brussels said Saturday.
The European Union announced that it would impose sanctions against the country's leaders on March 24 over a presidential election it condemned as flawed.
The black list of Belarusian officials has to be approved by the foreign ministers of the 25 EU members, who will meet on April 10 in Luxembourg.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who Washington has dubbed "Europe's last dictator", was reelected to a third term in the March 19 election with a massive 83% of the vote.
The Belarusian opposition denounced the elections as fraudulent, and staged a sit-in protest on central Oktyabrskaya Square in the capital, Minsk. The rally was broken up after a few days, as was a demonstration March 25 that saw hundreds arrested and, the opposition alleges, left at least one protestor dead.
