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“We are continuing active consultations with Russian companies on the conditions of transshipment of Belarusian petroleum products in Russian ports. It is planned to channel practically all their exports by sea, which are now transshipped in Baltic ports. This traditionally amounts to 6 million. per year, “said Beliaftechim spokesman Aliaksandr Tishchenko.
According to Belstat, the national statistical office of Belarus, last year the country exported 10.52 million. tons of petroleum products – 11.7 percent. less than the previous year. Exports to the European Union decreased by 17.6%. up to 7 million tons, to Ukraine – an increase of 4.6 percent. up to 3.3 million tons.
Faced with pressure from the opposition and Western democracies following the controversial presidential elections in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko threatened to divert the transit of Belarusian cargo from the Baltic states, which imposed sanctions on Minsk, to Russian ports in late August. Most of them are processed at the Klaipeda port. Later, the authoritarian Belarusian president clarified that this will happen if Russia offers similar conditions.
According to the Lithuanian government, diverting the cargo from Lithuania would mainly harm Belarus itself economically.
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