Top U.S. Diplomat Says U.S., EU Will 'Soon' Impose More Economic Pain on Belarus for Creating Migrant Crisis on Border with EU

The United States and the European Union will “soon” impose more economic pain on Belarus for creating a migrant crisis on its border with the EU, a top U.S. diplomat said.

U.S. Special Envoy to Belarus Julie Fisher told a Wilson Center conference on November 22 that strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka “bears full responsibility” for the crisis that has left thousands of migrants from the Middle East stranded between the EU and Belarusian border and that action must be taken to change his behavior.

“The United States and the EU have both made it clear that more sanctions pressure is coming soon,” she said.