The European Union has banned Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko and 30 other officials from entering the 25-nation bloc.
EU foreign ministers took the decision to punish those they say were involved in rigging Belarus's March 19th presidential polls and a crackdown on opposition activists.
The EU did not decide to freeze the assets of the banned individuals for now but warned it may do so at a later stage. It asked the European Commission to make proposals for further targeted measures, a EU diplomat said.
Mr Lukashenko, sworn in on Saturday, is number one on the list, followed by his head of presidential administration; the ministers of education, information and justice; the chairman of the lower house of parliament and the head of the KGB security service.
Others named include the prosecutor-general, several judges and prosecutors, the country's seven regional election officials and the head of the state television and radio company.
Alexander Milinkevich, nearest rival to Mr Lukashenko in the elections, called for hundreds more officials to be put on the list of banned people when he spoke at the European Parliament last week, but he argued against economic sanctions.
At Saturday's swearing-in ceremony, Mr Lukashenko accused Belarus's EU neighbours Poland, Lithuania and Latvia of trying to sow upheaval in his country of ten million.
He said voters wanted no part of "coloured" revolutions that had propelled pro-Western leaders to power in Georgia and Ukraine.