EU Lukashenko left for the right to travel to Europe.

Representatives of the Belarusian leadership, including President Alexander Lukashenko retained the right to visit EU countries. The decision, as reported by AFP, took the Foreign Ministers of EU member states. They have extended a moratorium on sanctions, imposed earlier in Belarus, a further nine months.
A source in the diplomatic circles, which refers to the agency, said that rejecting the ban, the EU is trying to retain influence on Belarus, offsetting its reliance on Russia.
At the same time, noting that Belarus has not yet reached an adequate level of democracy, the Foreign Ministers decided that certain other sanctions against the republic (in particular the arms embargo) would be extended for another year.
EU sanctions against the Belarusian leadership were introduced after the presidential elections of 2006, which the EU does not conform to the norms of democracy. The EU has also put the blame for the official Minsk pressure on voters and harassment of opposition. Persona non grata in Europe were about 30 senior Belarusian officials, including heads of power structures.
However, in October 2008, EU foreign ministers decided that the ban on visits to European countries imposed on Lukashenko and his entourage, to be temporarily removed. Thus the representatives of the European Union have decided to encourage the development of democracy in the country and to celebrate the release of Belarusian political prisoners. Shortly before this by the president of Belarus have been released from prison three members of the opposition, including former presidential candidate Alexander Kozulin.
Since the autumn of 2008 were also renewed contacts between senior representatives of the EU and the Belarusian leadership.
Meanwhile, favorable position in relation to the EU Alexander Lukashenko has sparked criticism from the Belarusian opposition. According to the opposition, the EU does not pay due attention to the persecution of dissidents and human rights violations in the republic.