Brussels, 01/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - The European Union is to impose targeted sanctions on four people whose actions compromise democracy or hinder the search for a political solution to the current crisis in Burundi. This is what was decided by the Council of the EU, without debate, on Thursday 1 October.
These four people will be subject to restrictions on obtaining a visa and to a freeze on the assets they hold in the EU. This decision will enter into force when it is published in the Official Journal of the EU on Friday 2 October. The lack of any political solution and the risk of an escalation in violence have led the EU to carry out the threat it has brandished on several occasions since June (see EUROPE 11340). The EU also reserves the right to restrict development cooperation with Burundi, under Article 96 of the Cotonou Agreement (see EUROPE 11346). (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)