U.S. Treasury lifts sanctions on Belarusian Lakokraska, Bellesbumprom

The United States has officially removed two Belarusian companies from its sanctions list, according to a notice published on the U.S. Department of the Treasury website.

The Belarusian enterprise Lakokraska and the Belarusian timber, woodworking, pulp and paper industry concern Bellesbumprom have been removed from the sanctions list of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

An agreement to lift these restrictions was announced earlier following talks in Minsk on 15 September between Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and a team of U.S. President Donald Trump’s representatives, led by Special Envoy for Belarus John Cole.