Brussels, 27/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - The Foreign Affairs Council of Monday 31 January is expected to give the go-ahead to the re-introduction of an EU visa ban on the political leaders of Belarus and individuals very close to the regime. The extended list will be published in the EU Official Journal and will include more than a hundred names of people closely involved in falsifying election results and repressing opposition after the 19 December 2010 presidential elections. The Council will continue its talks about more targeted measures against the Belarus regime, like freezing assets and other economic sanctions. The European Parliament hopes to send a clear signal to the Belarus authorities by suspending Belarussian participation in the EURONEST parliamentary assembly (the Eastern Partnership Parliamentary Assembly). If there is no great improvement in the situation in Belarus, suspension may be decided upon for the first sitting of EURONEST in the spring. Various EU diplomats explain that because the EP does not recognise the legitimacy of the December elections, it will not be possible to put the Belarus authorities on equal footing with democratically elected parliamentarians from the other five countries involved in EURONEST (Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). Lithuania, the current chair of the OSCE, is organising a donor conference immediately after a donor conference in Poland. Both conferences are for Belarussian civil society and people suffering from repression in the country. The first meeting will take place in Warsaw on 2 February 2011 to decide on support mechanisms for Belarus civil society. The second conference will take place in Vilnius on 3 and 4 February 2011. (A.By./transl.fl)