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Nine more countries join EU's decision to extend list of Belarusians subject to sanctions

Nine more countries have joined the European Union's March 21 decision to add more people to its list of Belarusians subject to travel bans and asset freezes over the ongoing crackdown on government opponents.

The countries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, and Serbia.

Catherine Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, said earlier this week that the 27-nation bloc welcomed the countries' decision to join the new sanctions, the press office of the EU Delegation to Belarus told BelaPAN.

Nineteen people, including senior police officials, judges and university rectors, were added to the EU's blacklist on March 21. There are now 175 people on the list.