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“We also spoke very seriously about reorienting the flow of cargo from the Baltic states to St. Petersburg. I told him directly: if it offers the same conditions as in the Baltic countries, it is the same for us,” Lukashenko said of his talks with the president. Russian Vladimir Putin earlier this week in the spa of Sochi on the Black Sea.
“Knowing that he had not yet left Sochi, he ordered everything to be calculated and negotiated,” he said.
Faced with pressure from the opposition following the controversial presidential elections, authoritarian Belarusian President Lukashenko threatened to divert Belarusian cargo transit from the Baltic states, which imposed sanctions on Minsk, to Russian ports late last month. Most of them are processed at the Klaipeda port.
According to the Lithuanian government, diverting the cargo from Lithuania would primarily harm Belarus itself economically.
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