Committee on Foreign Affairs Ordinary meeting
9 November 2026
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AFET European Parliament
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Speaker 1
entering more and more in new territories. This is not just in relation to third countries. We also are, and I heard your suggestion, going after chief operating officers and a number of other employees of companies. That's what we did with the 1,600. Actually, the individuals who are sanctioned are all CEOs of Russian military-industrial company, and we want to effectively exert more pressure by going more after this impunity, if I may say, of action.
And we'll continue efforts effectively on leading business persons and other people who are directly contributing through their work to Russia's war of aggression. On Belarus, I am not directly familiar with the example you mentioned, but we do have a regular review mechanism of the Belarus sanctions. We are adding some regularly. We are taking out some regularly. We now have a review mechanism that will end in February.
And we have also a constant adaptation or, I would say, mirroring of the Belarus sanctions with that of Russia when it comes to trade and financial measures.
So, I mean rest assured that, effectively, the pressure continues, is maintained, and we have a constant attention. There were recently a few conversations between member states, that is correct, in relation to adding measures that were specific to the human rights situations, but other dimensions effectively continue. On the Chinese companies, we have, and but David mentioned, we already have a series of examples. There are many under export control measures, actually, and we also had full designations of Russian companies active in the Russian military industrial or in support of the Russian military industrial sector, particularly on drones. We also have two refineries and one oil trader in China.
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