In addition, persons and companies in the EU are forbidden from doing business with sanctioned targets in Belarus.
Mr Lukashenko noted that Minsk would strive to expand the SCO’s influence and broaden its circle of allies and supporters.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, chairing the SCO this year, congratulated Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko, who was regarded as Europe’s last dictator.
Belarus is to test its rapid response forces in an unannounced military manoeuvre, the European country’s Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
A Belarusian activist was found dead in Kiev a day after being reported missing, police said on Tuesday.
The man had doused himself with a liquid before setting himself alight.
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