The Czech Foreign Ministry will have a new department that will deal with sanctions against the Russian Federation, said Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky, Czech Radio reports..

The recently passed law, referred to by the United States as the Magnitsky Act, will allow national sanctions to be applied to individuals not included in the EU sanctions list, as well as to ban them from entering the country and freeze assets.

Lipavsky did not specify when exactly the country plans to impose specific sanctions against citizens of the Russian Federation and Russian companies.. However, he noted that the lists compiled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be approved by the government..

“The law is directed against persons participating in the unfolding war, but for some reason have not yet been included in the European sanctions lists,” the minister explained..

According to him, the law will apply, first of all, to subjects from Russia and Belarus who are somehow responsible for the war against Ukraine..

Also, the new initiative may allow to take action against organizations and regimes that violate human rights, as well as use terrorist methods and cyber attacks..

The criterion for inclusion in the sanctions list of the Czech Republic will not only be support by specific individuals of the war.

“Another parameter is, of course, the foreign policy interests of the Czech Republic and issues of its security,” David Konetsky, spokesman for the country’s Foreign Ministry, said earlier..

Lipavsky said that the Czech Foreign Ministry is cooperating with other countries, in particular, with the United States, to tighten sanctions.. According to him, the Czech Republic, in any case, will first offer its sanctions list to Brussels..

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Earlier it was reported that the EU introduced a new package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, which will affect the military-industrial complex, TV channels, banks and the provision of consulting services to companies from Russia.