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The blacklist of targets believed to be involved in human trafficking will be developed over the coming days.
The European Union will toughen sanctions on Belarus on Monday and may extend them to include airlines and others involved in transporting migrants, the EU's top diplomat said, as the migrant crisis on the Polish border intensifies. FRANCE 24's Chief Foreign Editor Robert Parsons tells us more.
The United States is preparing new sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, in coordination with the European Union, over the "inhumane facilitation" of migrant flows on its border with Poland. SOUNDBITE
The European Union hopes to extend its sanctions to include airlines, travel agents and other people involved in transporting migrants to Belarus, the bloc's top diplomat told reporters on Monday.
Belarus's strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko vowed Thursday to respond to any new sanctions imposed over the migrant crisis on his country's border with Poland, including by potentially cutting off the transit of natural gas to Europe.
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