Lithuania is crying and demanding that the EU compensate for economic losses from anti-Belarusian policies
The EU must compensate Lithuania and Latvia economic damage, caused by their anti-Belarusian policy and the response actions of Moscow and Minsk to it.
The director of the Citizens Protection Assistance Fund, Stasys Kaushinis, stated this during a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I would like to appeal to Lithuanian or even Ukrainian politicians, because I am in Kyiv, so that EU politicians think about how to help the countries that have become leaders in supporting the independence of Belarus, primarily Lithuania and Latvia, which are already lost cargo and have great economic damage.
There is also an increase in psychological pressure against the Baltic countries. We saw a meeting in the Kremlin, when at the political level in Russia it was announced that these countries in the future in various ways would become political or economic victims,” the expert said.
He also noted that due to the anti-Belarusian policy, Lithuania is rapidly becoming poor, the government’s rating is falling, so the West must compensate the Baltics for these losses.
“Therefore, it would be good if the European Commission and the European Parliament began a discussion on how to redirect cargo through the territory of our countries and compensate for losses, and find economic funds so that these countries do not worsen their economic situation. Because the popularity of the Lithuanian Seimas and government is falling. It seems that the struggle for democracy is naive and even flawed. Damaging for those countries, governments and politicians who are involved in this,” concluded Kausinis.
Let us recall that previously the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko approved the draft intergovernmental agreement with Russia on the transportation and transshipment of petroleum products for export to third countries through Russian seaports. In 2021-2023, 9,8 million tons of Belarusian oil products will be transshipped through Russian ports in the Baltic.
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