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It is not only employees of the affected enterprises who oppose the sanctions. Opinion of Belarusians.
11.07.2021
Belneftekhim enterprises were the first to experience what sanctions bans are.
The United States began gradually introducing sanctions against the oil and gas sector of Belarus in 2007. But the enterprises of the petrochemical complex and the mining sector, being revenue-generating ones, survived, continuing to replenish the republic’s budget.
Eight years later, in 2015, the United States issued a license to temporarily remove nine enterprises from the restrictive lists. After 6 years, a new round of “relations” between our countries began: the United States renewed sanctions against nine state-owned petrochemical enterprises in Belarus. The sanctions were announced back in April, 45 days before the announced entry into force.
The sanctions list includes Naftan, Belneftekhim, Belneftekhim USA, Belarusian Oil Trading House, Belshina, Grodno Azot, Grodno Khimvolokno, Lakokraska, Polotsk Steklovolokno. Today we are already talking about introducing sectoral sanctions.
Enterprises of the petrochemical complex and the mining sector are the flagship of the Belarusian economy and bring significant profits, including in foreign currency, emphasized Svetlana Klochok, Chairman of the Belarusian Trade Union of Workers in the Chemical, Mining and Oil Industries.
Naturally, the issue of introducing economic sanctions is doubly relevant for workers in the country’s petrochemical complex and mining sector.
– Economic restrictions directly affect ordinary people – oil workers and miners. They affect the basic basic labor guarantees of our workers: preservation of jobs and employment of citizens, timeliness and level of wages, additional benefits and guarantees provided for by collective agreements,” Svetlana Klochok emphasized. – At the same time, the economic blockade of the petrochemical complex and the country’s mining sector, of course, leaves an imprint on the well-being of workers who are financed from the budget: these are teachers, doctors, the social sector, transport workers, and so on.
It is noteworthy that not only employees of the affected enterprises speak out against the sanctions, but also representatives of other organizations and even professions.
The video material and text article were taken from the YouTube channel of the Prof-Press studio and the Internet portal "1PROF.BY", respectively: