It has also placed senior members of the government under a visa ban and frozen their assets.

"A visa ban is useful symbolic action, but if the Administration does not impose economic sanctions, its credibility on human rights will be seriously damaged."

But financial sanctions and a visa ban aimed at the Milosevic government are likely to remain in place for now.

We have had sanctions in the form of a visa ban against the Belarus leaders in the past.

We also keep the EU list of senior officials covered by the visa ban under continual review.

We introduced a more comprehensive visa ban and prohibited support for international financing.

I agree to the visa ban being extended to include other authorities and personalities in Belarus.

We would like to see provision in paragraph 2 for the sanctions to be extended, with a targeted visa ban on specific key individuals.

The visa ban has been the only significant step taken by the Council.

Mr President, the question was: what are the conditions subject to which the visa ban might be lifted?